The Believing Brain - Michael Shermer [209]
Palin, Sarah
Palmquist, Bradley
paradigms
parallel universes
paranormal belief scale
paranormal research
parietal lobe
Parkinson’s disease
Parsons, William, earl of Rosse
Partisan Hearts and Minds (Green, Palmquist, and Schickler)
parvocellular pathway
patternicity
agenticity and
belief confirmation and
brain and
conspiracy theories and
control and
creativity vs. madness and
defined
dopamine and
evolution of
facial recognition
God and
left-hemisphere interpreter and
mimicry and
nebulae riddle and
personality and
powers and perils of
probability and
science and
supernormal
true vs. false
Pearl Harbor attack
pendulum
P-E-N model
Penrose, Roger
peripatetics
Perle, Richard
Persinger, Michael
phantom limbs
Pinker, Steven
Planck’s constant
planetary systems
sun vs. earth centered
Plank, Robert
Plato
pleasure center
Plurality of Worlds (Dick)
Poe, Edgar Allan
Poldrack, Russell
political beliefs
Political Brain, The (Westen)
“Political Conservatism” (Jost)
Politically Incorrect (TV show)
Political Mind, The (Lakoff)
Polo, Marco
Poltergeist (film)
polymerase chain reaction (PCR)
Ponder, Julie
Popovic, Cvjetko
posterior superior parietal lobe
postsynaptic neuron
post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Praeger, Dennis
prayer
prefrontal cortex (PFC)
Presence of the Past, The (Sheldrake)
presynaptic neuron
primacy effect
primary visual cortex
Princip, Gavrilo
principled values
probability
Probst, Jeff
projection bias
Pronin, Emily
propagation
property rights
Protagoras’s bias
Protec Documentation Services
Protestant Reformation
Prozac
psi research
psychiatrists
psychics, correct predictions of
Psychological Bulletin
Psychological Operations (PsyOps)
Psychology Today
Ptolemy
punen ritual
purity/sanctity values
qualia
quantum consciousness
quantum mechanics
Race Across America (RAAM)
Ramachandran, V. S. (“Rama”)
Rand, Ayn
Randi, James
Raner, Guy H.
rationalization
Reagan, Ronald
Realistic Vision (of human nature)
reason and logic
recency effect
reciprocal altruism
reductionism
reduplicative paramnesia
Rees, Sir Martin
reincarnation
reinforcement
religions, comparing world. See also specific religions
Remembering Trauma (McNally)
repetition avoidance
representative bias
Republicans
reserpine
residual problem
Ressam, Ahmed
resurrection myths
Rhine, Joseph
right angular gyrus
right cortex
right-hemisphere, left-hemisphere vs.
right parietal cortex
right temporal lobe
risk taking
Ritchey, George
Rizzolatti, Giacomo
Road to Serfdom, The (von Hayek)
Robic, Jure
Rodin, Judith
Ronson, Jon
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Rosa, Linda
Rosenhan, David
Roswell, New Mexico
rosy retrospection bias
Rothman, Stanley
rule of law
rules of thumb
Rumsfeld, Donald
Russell, Dale A.
Ryswick, Treaty of
Sacks, Oliver
Sagan, Carl
Samuelson, William
Sarner, Larry
Saturn
Savelli, Guy
Scheiner, Julius
Schickler, Eric
schizophrenia
Schlitz, Marilyn
Schriever, Bob
Schwarz, Jack
Schwarz, Jeffrey
Schwarzenegger, Arnold
Science
science
belief vs.
burden of proof and
cause-and-effect and
comparative method and
convergence method and
dispute resolution in
experiment determines objective truth
fine-tuning problem and
galaxies and
hard vs. soft
inferential
null hypothesis and
origin of universe
pattern recognition and
positive evidence and
skepticism and
supernatural incorporated into
tool for truth
science education
science fiction
Science of Good and Evil, The
Science of Liberty, The (Ferris)
science writing
Scientific American
Scientologists
self-affirmation
self-fulfilling prophecy
self-hypnosis
selfish gene model
selfishness
self-justification bias
self-serving bias
self-transcendence
sensed-presence effect
sense of self
serotonin
SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence)
Shackleton, Ernest Henry
Shapley, Harlow
Shawn, Wallace
Sheldrake, Rupert
Sherman, Bonnie
Shermer’s Last Law
Sheth, Sameer A.
short-term trends
signal-to-noise ration (SNR)
sign stimulus
Silverstein, Larry