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Humanitarian Revolution

introduction of concept

and technologies

use of terms

women’s rights

Rindermann, Heiner

risk perception, see fear

Rivers, Eugene

Rizzolatti, Giacomo

Robbers Cave study

Roberts, Adam

Robespierre, Maximilien

Robinson, Paul

robots

rock music

Rockwell, Norman

Roe v. Wade

Rolling Stones

Roman Empire

animals in

Carthage vs.

Colosseum in

crucifixion in

fall of

gladiators in

human life devalued in

infanticide in

Roman law

Roman Republic, slavery in

Romanticism

romantic militarism

romantic nationalism

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Roosevelt, Theodore

Rosenau, James

Rosenbaum, Ron

Rosenberg, Julius and Ethel

Rostand, Edmond, Les Romantesques

Rostow, Elspeth

Roth, Randolph

Rothstein, Richard

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

Rozin, Paul

Rubin, Jerry

Rule of Law measure

Rummel, Rudolf J.

Rumsfeld, Donald

Rush, Benjamin

Rushdie, Salman

Rusk, Dean

Ruskin, John

Russell, Bertrand

Russett, Bruce

Russia:

capital punishment in

civil war in

and Cold War, see USSR

compulsory military service in

crime in

peasant uprisings in

retaliation in

terrorism in

Time of Troubles

and World War I

Russian Revolution

Rwanda

Ryder, Norman

Saakashvili, Mikheil

sacred values

Sadat, Anwar

Sade, Marquis de

sadism

introduction of concept

psychology of

by serial killers

and torture

Sagan, Carl

Sagan, Scott

Sageman, Marc

Sailer, Steven

Saint Pierre, Abbé de

Salehyan, Idean

Salem witch trials

Salmon, Catherine

Sampson, Robert

Samuel

Sand Creek Massacre

Santayana, George

Sassoon, Siegfried

SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test)

satire

Saudi Arabia

Saul, King

Saunders, J. J.

savage, use of term

Saxe, Rebecca

Sayers, Dorothy L.

Scandinavia

homicides in

Scarpa, Angela

schadenfreude; see also sadism

Schama, Simon

Schechter, Harold

Schell, Jonathan

Schelling, Friedrich

Schelling, Thomas

schools:

corporal punishment in

education in

weapons in

see also education

Schwager, Raymund

Schweitzer, Albert

Schwerner, Michael

science, value system of

scientific reasoning; see also modernity

Scientific Revolution

Scotland

Scott, Sir Walter

Scully, Diana

Seabrook, John

security dilemma; see also Hobbesian trap

Seeking system

Seinfeld, Jerry

self-control

and Civilizing Process

and counterculture

and crime

and ego depletion

and etiquette

and experience

fatigue of

heritability of

and human brain

and intelligence

introduction of concept

language of

measures of

and reason

sexual

strategies of

self-deception

self-determination

self-domestication

self-esteem

self-help justice

self-organized criticality

self-serving biases

Seligman, Martin

Semai people

sensation seeking; see also attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

September 11 attacks

Serbia

serial killers

serotonin

Servetus, Michael

Sesame Street (TV)

Seven Years’ War

sexism; see also women, attitudes toward; women, male control of; women, as property; women, rights of

sex ratio

sexual abuse

sexual jealousy

sexual revolution

sexual sadism

sexual selection, theory of

sexual self-control

Shaka (Zulu)

Shakespeare, William

Falstaff

Henry IV, Part I,

Henry V,

King Lear

Measure for Measure

The Merchant of Venice

Portia

Shylock

Titus Andronicus

Shasta County, California, ranchers

Shaw, George Bernard

Sheehan, James

Shen, Francis X.

Shepard, Matthew

Shergill, Sukhwinder

Sherriff, R. C.

Shikaki, Khalil

Shotland, Lance

Shultz, George

Shweder, Richard

Sidanius, Jim

siege, use of term

Silence of the Lambs, The (film)

Simon, Paul

Simon, Robert

Simonton, Dean

Singapore

Singer, Peter:

Animal Liberation

The Expanding Circle

Singer, Tania

sins, seven deadly

SIPRI (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute)

six degrees of separation

Skenazy, Lenore

skepticism

slavery

abolition of

in American South

death toll of

and debt bondage

first-person accounts of

history of

human trafficking

and Islam

and religion

and war

Slovic, Paul

Smith, Adam

The Theory of Moral Sentiments

Smith, John Maynard

Smoot-Hawley Act

Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, The (TV)

Snow, C. P.

social capital

social class

Indian caste system

social contract

social Darwinism

social dilemma

social dominance

social identity

socialism

social mobility

society, as organic system

Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade

Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children

Society for the Protection of Animals

sociopaths, see antisocial personality disorder; psychopaths

Sokal, Alan

soldiers, see armed forces

Solomon, King

Solomon, Richard

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr

Somoza, Anastasio

Song of the South (film)

Sorokin, Pitirim

souls:

of animals

vs. lives

transmigration of

South, American:

antiblack terrorism in

culture of honor in

slavery in

violence in

South Africa

South-West Africa, genocide in

sovereignty

Soviet Union, see USSR

Sowell, Thomas

Spagat, Michael

Spain

commerce in

Madrid train bombings

wars in

Spanish Inquisition

Spee, Father Friedrich

Spielberg, Steven

Spierenburg, Pieter

Spinoza, Baruch

Spitzer, Steven

Spock, Benjamin

sports, violent

sports fandom

spree killers

Springsteen, Bruce

Sri Lanka

Stalin, Joseph

Stanford Prison Experiment

Starr, Edwin

state-based armed conflict

states:

borders of

centralization of power in

destruction of

economic development of

emergence of

failed

homicide rates in

nonnuclear

and Pacifist’s Dilemma

trust in

war deaths

statistical lives

statistics:

bell curve

cluster illusion

conjunction fallacy

cross-lagged correlation

deadly quarrels

frequency

logarithmic scale

multiple logistic regression

orders of magnitude

patterns in

post hoc vs. a priori comparison

power-law distributions

probability

randomness

regression to the mean

rounding

Steckel, Richard

Steinbeck, John

stereotyping; see also categorization; essentialism, psychological; racism; sexism

Stewart, Jon

Stillwell, Arlene

Stowe, Harriet Beecher, Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Straus, Murray

Stravinsky, Igor

Straw, Margaret

Stroop task

Sturm und Drang movement

Sudan

Suedfeld, Peter

Sugiyama, Lawrence

suicide terrorism

Suk, Jeannie

sunk-cost fallacy; see also loss aversion

Sunstein, Cass

superrationality

suttee

Suttner, Bertha von

Sutton, Willie

Swift, Jonathan

Switzerland

Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA)

Symons, Donald

sympathy; see also empathy

sympathy-altruism hypothesis

systematicity, in cognitive science

Szathmáry, Eörs

Taagepera, Rein

taboos:

chemical weapons

conquest

and euphemism

human life

infanticide

knife

in language

mentality of

and moral sense

national borders

nuclear

and political correctness

psychology of

rape, in video games

torture

tradeoffs

violence against children

weapons of mass destruction

tabula rasa

Tacitus

Tajfel, Henri

Taliban

Talmy, Len

Tamerlane (Timur Lenk)

Tamil Tigers

Tannenwald, Nina

Tanzania

taphonomy

Tavris, Carol

Taylor, Theodore

Tea Party movement

technology:

book production

Christian ideology vs.

and commerce

and cosmopolitanism

Global Village

government as

and information

killing at a distance

and moral progress

robots and drones

weaponry

temperance movement

temporal discounting; see also interest, and self-control

Ten Commandments

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord

territory:

expansion of

fighting for

terrorism

Age of Terror

as asymmetrical warfare

and ethnic riots

failure of

and fear

in history

and Islam

nuclear

power-law distribution of

segregationist

September

statistics of

suicide

testosterone

Tetlock, Philip

Thaler, Richard

That Obscure Object of Desire (film)

Theisen, Ole

theoconservatism

theocracy

theory of mind; see also empathy; mentalizing

third nature

third world, see developing world

Thirty Years’ War

Thomas, Clarence

Thöni, Christian

Three Mile Island

Thucydides

Thurmond, Strom

Thyne, Clayton

Till, Emmett

Tilly, Charles

Titchener, Edward

Tit for Tat game

tit-for-tat retaliation

Tocqueville, Alexis de

Tolstoy, Leo

Tooby, John

torture:

abolition of

death by a thousand cuts

as entertainment

and human sacrifice

of Inquisition

instruments of

of martyrs

in modern democracies

moral rationale of

museums of

as punishment

in Roman Empire

and Roman law

and sadism

salvation attained by

ticking-bomb scenario

and witch executions

totalitarianism

and genocide

see also autocracy; dictatorships; theocracy

total war

Townshend, Pete

Toynbee, Arnold, A Study of History

trade, international

trafficking, see human trafficking

Tragedy of the Commons

Tremblay, Richard

tribalism

tribes:

archaeological sites

and community

elders

group dominance

horse tribes

kinship in

and sorcery

violence between

and witchcraft

see also hunter-gatherers; specific tribes

Trietschke, Heinrich von

Trivers, Robert

Trivers-Willard theory of sex ratios

Trojan War

Trolley Problem

Truman, Harry S.

Trust game

Tuchman, Barbara

Tucker, G. Richard

Tunisia

Turing, Alan

Turkey

Turner, Henry

Tutu, Desmond

Tversky, Amos

Twain, Mark

Huckleberry Finn

Twenge, Jean

20th century, violence in

twin studies:

and behavioral genetics

of criminals

of intelligence

of personality

Tylor, Edward

Tyndale, William

tyranny, see despotism; totalitarianism

UCDP (Uppsala Conflict Data Project)

Uganda

Ukraine

Ultimatum game

Umberto I, king of Italy

unemployment

United Kingdom, see Britain/United Kingdom; England; Ireland; Scotland; Wales

United Nations

Arab Human Development Report

on capital punishment

Committee on Rights of the Child

General Assembly

on genocide

and homosexuality

and Iraqi invasion of Kuwait

and national borders

Office on Drugs and Crime

and peacekeeping

Security Council

UNESCO motto

UNESCO Trafficking Statistics Project

UNICEF Child Survival Revolution

and violence against women

United States:

American Revolution

armed forces of

capital punishment in

closing of the frontier

and Cold War, see Cold War

culture war in

deaths in

decivilization in 1960s,

demographics of

geographical distribution of homicides in

as great power

homicide rates in

immigrants to

migration routes in

nuclear monopoly of

presidential debates

presidents

racism in

recivilization in 1990s,

violence in

war deaths in

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Uruguay

USSR:

Afghanistan invaded by

before and after Cold War, see Russia

collapse of

collectivization in

Cuban Missile Crisis

expansionism

genocide in

as great power

and nuclear weapons

Stalin’s purges

and World War II,

see also Cold War

utilitarianism

utopianism

uxoricide

vaccination

Valdesolo, Piercarlo

Valentino, Benjamin

Valero, Helena

Valéry, Paul

van der Dennen, Johan

van Gogh, Theo

Vasquez, John

vegetarianism

vengeance, see revenge

Venice, democracy in

Verkko’s Laws

Versailles, Treaty of

Vidor, King

Vienna, Congress of

Vietnam

“Vietnam Syndrome,”

Vietnam War

antiwar protests

atrocities in

deaths in

Tungsten Theory of

as war of attrition

vigilantism

Violence Against Women Act (1994)

violence triangle

Virginia, homicides in

vivisection

Vlad the Impaler

Voltaire

Vonnegut, Kurt

Voting Rights Act (1965)

Waal, Frans de

Waldman, Irwin

Wales

Walker, Alice

Wallis, John

Walsh, John

Waltz, Kenneth

war:

alternatives to

antiwar views

of attrition

avoidance of

battle deaths, use of term

categories of

causes of

changing attitudes toward

colonial

datasets

Conflict Catalog

Correlates of War Project

Human Security Report Project

Levy on great power wars

Luard on

PRIO

L. F. Richardson on

SIPRI

UCDP

Q. Wright on

and “deadly quarrels,”

death rates

destructiveness of

drivers of

duration of

economic futility of

extrastate; see also war, colonial; war, imperial

geography of

glory of

of great powers

homicide vs.

immorality of

imperial

indirect deaths in

interstate

intrastate; see also civil war

magnitude of

major

military horizon in

“new,”

in nonstate societies

power-law distribution of

private

probability of

proxy

territorial

timing of

total

trends in

see also specific wars

war games

warlords

agglomeration of

knights as

War of Attrition game

War of the Holy League

War of the League of Augsburg

War of the Spanish Succession

War of the Triple Alliance

War on Drugs

Warrior Gene theory

Wars of Religion

Washington, George

Waters, Muddy

Wathaurung aborigines

Watts, Duncan

wealth:

accumulation of

creation of

and decline of violence

plunder of

as zero-sum

weapons

antipersonnel

biological

black market for

chemical

dirty (radiological) bombs

long-distance

of mass destruction

in military revolution

nuclear

in schools

technology of

Weber, Max

Weber’s Law

Wegner, Daniel

Weinberg, Alvin

Wellington, Duke of

Wells, H. G.

West, Rebecca

Western society:

declines in violence compared with societies

hostility to accomplishments

humanistic movements in non-Western societies

see also modernity

western U.S.

Westphalia, Peace of

White, Matthew

Who, The

Wiesel, Elie

Wiessner, Polly

WikiLeaks

Wilde, Oscar

Wilkinson, Deanna

Willard, Dan

Willer, Robb

Williamson, Laila

Willkie, Wendell

Wilson, James Q.

Wilson, Margo

Wilson, Woodrow

Wimer, Christopher

Winfrey, Oprah

Wirth, Christian

witchcraft

Witness (film)

Wollstonecraft, Mary

Wolpert, Daniel

women:

and abortion

Amazons

in American West

antiwar views of

attitudes toward

competition for

and domestic violence

feminism

feminization

genital mutilation of

in harems

and Islam

as leaders

male control of

as pacifying force

peace activists

postpartum depression

as property

rape of, see rape

rights of

self-defense for

“Take Back the Night,”

torture of

violence against

violence by

violence over; see also sexual jealousy

World Bank

world government

World Health Organization (WHO)

World War I

and antiwar views

and influenza pandemic

as literary war

and nationalism

onset of

poison gas in

and World War II

World War II

causes of

destructiveness of

and ethnic cleansing

London Blitz in

and Pearl Harbor

and poison gas

Wotman, Sara

Wouters, Cas

Wrangham, Richard

Wright, Quincy

Wright, Robert

Xhosa people

Yamaguchi, Tsutomu

Yanomamö people

Yates, Andrea

Yemen

Young, Liane

Young, Maxwell

Younger, Stephen

young men:

African American

aggression of

in American West

in bachelor cults

and code of honor

and crime

in criminal gangs

and dominance

and drug culture

homicides by

in prison

socialization of

terrorists

tribal elders defied by

Yugoslavia

Zacher, Mark

Zambia

Zebrowitz, Leslie

Zelizer, Viviana

zero-sum games

Zimbardo, Philip

Zimring, Franklin

Zipf, G. K.

Źiźek, Slavoj

Zola, Émile

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