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Tara K. MacDonald et al., “Alcohol Myopia and Condom Use: Can Alcohol Intoxication Be Associated With More Prudent Behavior?,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 78, no. 4 (2000): 605–19.

“I was hoping…she was enjoying it”: Helen Weathers, “I’m No Rapist…Just a Fool,” Daily Mail, March 30, 2007, dailymail/femail/article-445750/Im-rapist--just-fool.html.

“He insisted…she removed them altogether”: R v Bree [2007] EWCA Crim 804 [16]–[17]; “She had no idea…for how long,” [8]; “Both were adults…legislative structures,” [25]–[35]; further quotes from ruling (in footnote), [32], [35], [36].

Memory test with three dead mice: Donald Goodwin, “Alcohol Amnesia,” Addiction (1995): 90, 315–17. (No ethics board would approve this experiment today.) The story about the salesman who experienced a five-day blackout is also drawn from this source.

Police sobriety checkpoints (in footnote): Joann Wells et al., “Drinking Drivers Missed at Sobriety Checkpoints,” Journal of Studies on Alcohol (1997): 58, 513–17.

one of the first comprehensive surveys of college drinking: Robert Straus and Selden Bacon, Drinking in College (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1953), p. 103.

Aaron White recently surveyed more than 700 Duke students: Aaron M. White et al., “Prevalence and Correlates of Alcohol-Induced Blackouts Among College Students: Results of an E-Mail Survey,” Journal of American College Health 51, no. 3 (2002): 117–31, doi:10.1080/07448480209596339.

In a remarkable essay (in footnote): Ashton Katherine Carrick, “Drinking to Blackout,” New York Times, September 19, 2016, nytimes/2016/09/19/opinion/drinking-to-blackout.html.

the consumption gap between men and women…has narrowed: William Corbin et al., “Ethnic differences and the closing of the sex gap in alcohol use among college-bound students,” Psychology of Addictive Behaviors 22, no. 2 (2008): 240–48, dx.doi/10.1037/0893-164X.22.2.240.

Nor is it just a matter of weight (in footnote): “Body Measurements,” National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, May 3, 2017, cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/body-measurements.htm.

There are also meaningful differences (in footnote): Numbers found using online blood-alcohol calculator at alcoholhelpcenter/program/bac_standalone.aspx.

“Let’s be totally clear…prevent more victims”: Emily Yoffe, “College Women: Stop Getting Drunk,” Slate, October 16, 2013, slate/human-interest/2013/10/sexual-assault-and-drinking-teach-women-the-connection.html.

Adults feel quite differently (in footnote): Statistic is from Washington Post/Kaiser Family Foundation poll.

“Persons learn about drunkenness…deserve what they get”: Craig MacAndrew and Robert B. Edgerton, Drunken Comportment: A Social Explanation (Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company, 1969), pp.172–73.

“My independence, natural joy…not how to drink less”: Emily Doe’s Victim Impact Statement, pp. 7–9, sccgov/sites/da/newsroom/newsreleases/Documents/B-Turner%20VIS.pdf.

Chapter Nine: KSM: What Happens When the Stranger Is a Terrorist?

“Call me Mukhtar…the 9/11 attacks”: James Mitchell, Enhanced Interrogation: Inside the Minds and Motives of the Islamic Terrorists Trying to Destroy America (New York: Crown Forum, 2016), p. 7.

portions of a videotaped deposition: Sheri Fink and James Risen, “Psychologists Open a Window on Brutal CIA Interrogations,” New York Times, June 21, 2017, nytimes/interactive/2017/06/20/us/cia-torture.html.

From Wikipedia: “Water intoxication, also known as water poisoning, hyperhydration, overhydration, or water toxemia[,] is a potentially fatal disturbance in brain functions that results when the normal balance of electrolytes in the body is pushed outside safe limits by excessive water intake.”

“The realistic stress of…actual combat”: Charles A. Morgan et al., “Hormone Profiles in Humans Experiencing Military Survival Training,” Biological Psychiatry 47, no. 10 (2000): 891–901, doi:10.1016/s0006-3223(99)00307-8.

Rey-Osterrieth figures drawn before and after interrogation: Charles A. Morgan III et al., “Stress-Induced Deficits in Working Memory and Visuo-Constructive Abilities in Special Operations Soldiers,” Biological Psychiatry 60, no. 7 (2006): 722–29, doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2006.04.021. The Rey-Osterrieth figure was first developed by Andre Rey and published in his article “L'examen psychologique dans les cas d'encephalopathie traumatique (Les problemes),” Archives de Psychologie 28 (1941): 215-85.

In another, larger study (in footnote): Charles Morgan et al., “Accuracy of eyewitness memory for persons encountered during exposure to highly intense stress,” International Journal of Law and Psychiatry 27 (2004): 264–65.

KSM made his first public confession: Verbatim Transcript of Combatant Status Review Tribunal Hearing for ISN 10024, March 10, 2007, i.a.cnn/cnn/2007/images/03/14/transcript_ISN10024.pdf.

“might induce some form…wishes to have access to”: Shane O’Mara, Why Torture Doesn’t Work: The Neuroscience of Interrogation (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2015), p. 167.

KSM was “making things up”: Robert Baer, “Why KSM’s Confession Rings False,” Time, March 15, 2007, content.time/time/world/article/0,8599,1599861,00.html.

“He has nothing…problem since he was captured”: Adam Zagorin, “Can KSM’s Confession Be Believed?” Time, March 15, 2007, content.time/time/nation/article/0,8599,1599423,00.html.

Chapter Ten: Sylvia Plath

“I am writing from London…he lived there!”: Sylvia Plath to Aurelia Plath, November 7, 1962, in Peter K. Steinberg and Karen V. Kukil, eds., The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume II: 1956–1963 (New York: Harper Collins, 2018), p. 897.

“She seemed different…never seen her so strained”: Alfred Alvarez, The Savage God: A Study of Suicide (New York: Random House, 1971), pp. 30–31; “She talked about…how to ski,” pp. 18–19; “the poet as a sacrificial victim…the sake of her art,”