The Believing Brain - Michael Shermer [206]
Crisplin, Dr. Mark
critical point, neuronal process and
Cro-Magnons
Crommelin, A. C.
Cubrilovic, Vaso
cults
Cults, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies (Goldwag)
Curtis, Heber
Cutts, David
Dalrymple, Alexander
Dames, Ed
D’Aquili, Eugene
dark energy and dark matter
Darley, John
D’Arpino, Emilio “Chick”
Darwin, Charles
data
conflicting, and nebulae
replicable
theory and
theory and presentation and
Dateline NBC
Davies, Paul
Davis, Edward
Davis, William B.
Dawkins, Richard
Day We Found the Universe, The (Bartusiak)
Dearmore, Darrell C.
death, meaning of
death premonition dreams
decentering, cognitive process of
deduction
deep meditation
deep time
De Historia Stirpium (Fuchs)
democracy
Democrats
dendrites
Denying History (Shermer)
Descartes, René
Descartes’ Baby (Bloom)
Descent of Man, The (Darwin)
Dialogue (Galileo)
Diamond, Jared
Diana, Princess of Wales
dimethyltryptamine (DMT)
Dioscorides
dispositional attribution bias
DNA
Dobkin de Rios, Marlene
“Does Psi Exist?” (Bem and Honorton)
Dominican Republic
dopamine
dopaminergic system
Doppler effect
dorsolateral prefrontal cortex
double-slit experiment
Dragons of Eden, The (Sagan)
Drake equation
DRD4 gene
Drunkard’s Walk, The (Mlodinow)
D’Souza, Dinesh
dualism
Duvalier, François “Papa Doc”
Dyson, Freeman
Ea (Babylonian god)
Eager, Dr. Thomas
Earth
Eaves, Lindon
Eccles, Sir John
E. coli
economics
Economics in One Lesson (Hazlitt)
education
Edwin Hubble (Christianson)
Eerie Silence, The (Davies)
Egypt, ancient
Eibl-Eibesfeldt, Irenäus
Einstein, Albert
Einstein Papers Project
Ekman, Paul
electron, mass of
Eliot, T. S.
embodied cognition
emotional attribution bias
emotions
conversions and
truth and
Emoto, Masaru
empiricism
endorphins
endowment effect
End to Evil, An (Frum and Perle)
epinephrine
epistemology
Eratosthenes
error-detection networks
essentialism
ethology
Euthyphro’s dilemma
evangelicals
Everest, Mount
evidence
convergence of
negative
positive
evil, problem of
evolution
cosmic chauvinism and
endowment effect and
evidence and
facial recognition and
human nature and
induction vs. deduction and
morality and
Neanderthals and
patternicity and
Shermer’s last law and
theory of mind and
evolutionary biology
evolutionary psychology
“Evolution of Superstitious, The” (Foster and Kokko)
exaptation
excitatory postysynaptic potential (EPSP)
existence, question of
expectation bias
experimenter bias
Expert Political Judgment (Tetlock)
Exploring the Unknown (TV series)
extrasensory perception (ESP)
extraterrestial intelligence. See also aliens
Eysenck, Hans
face recognition
fairness/reciprocity values
false-consensus effect
false negative. See Type II error
false positive. See Type I error
Farwell, Lisa
Fath, Edward
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
“Federalist Paper Number 51”
feedback loop, cognitive process of
Fehr, Ernst
Fermi’s paradox
Ferris, Timothy
Few Good Men, A (film)
Feynman, Richard
fight-or-flight response
fine-tuning problem
Firmage, Joe
fixed action pattern
flood myths
folk numeracy
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Ford, Gerald
Foster, Kevin R.
Fox News’ Special Report
fractal pattern
framing effects
“Frank’s Box”
Franz Ferdinand, archduke of Austria
Fraunhofer, Joseph von
Freaky Friday (film)
Frederick the Great
freedom
Free Enterprise Institute
free market economics
Free to Choose (Friedman)
free will
Fried, Itzhak
Friedman, Milton
Frith, Christopher
Frum, David
Fuchs, Leonhart
fusiform gyrus
Gachter, Simon
Galambos, Andrew
galaxies
Galileo Galilei
Galinsky, Adam
Gallagher, Helen
Gamow, George
ganzfeld procedure
Garnie, Joe
Gazzaniga, Michael
Geivett, Doug
Geller, Uri
Gell-Mann, Murray
general relativity
genetics
geographies of belief
ghost dance
Gilbert, William
Gilgamesh, Epic of
Gilmore, Michael
Glendale College
global equilibrium theory
G-LOC
goal-related thinking
God, belief in. See also belief; and specific religions
agenticity and
aliens and SETI and
being wrong