The Believing Brain - Michael Shermer [210]
Simons, Daniel
Simpson, Joe
Simpsons, The (TV show)
Sinclair, Upton
single neuron level
Siula Grande
six cosmic numbers
six numbers
Sixth Sense, The (film)
Skeptic
skepticism
atheism vs.
defined
internal locus of control and
left-brain and
neural correlates of
personal journey toward
positive evidence and
Skinner, B. F.
sleep anomalies
sleep paralysis
Slipher, Vesto
Small Magellanic Cloud
Smith, Adam
Smith, Joseph
Smolin, Lee
Snelson, Jay Stuart
Snyder, Mark
social behavior
social intelligence
socialism
Society for Psychical Research
Socrates
soul
Soul Survivor (Leininger)
Sowell, Thomas
spatial summation
spectroscopy
Spinoza, Baruch
spiral nebulae
split-brain studies
SS-IRM-FAP process
standard candles
Stargate spy program
statistical standards of proof
status quo bias
Stenger, Victor
stereotyping bias
Stone, Oliver
Stossel, John
Strieber, Whitley
string theory
Stroop task
Stubblebine, Gen. Albert, III
Sullivan, Andrew
Sulloway, Frank
summation
sum-over-histories model
Sumption, Frank
sunk-cost bias
superior temporal sulci
supernormal stimuli
supernatural. See belief; and specific types
Supernormal Stimuli (Barrett)
supersense
Supersense (Hood)
superstitious behavior
Survivor (TV series)
synapses
Systema Saturnium (Huygens)
System of the Stars, The (Clerke)
Tarter, Jill
Tasman, Abel Janszoon
taste aversion effect
Tattersal, Ian
Taylor, Kirsten
Tea Party
Tectonic Strain Theory
telepathy
“telephone to the dead”
telescopes
Crossley
Hooker
Teller, Edward
Templeton Foundation
temporal lobes
temporal poles
temporal summation
Terra Incognita
territorial imperative
testosterone
Tetlock, Philip
Thaler, Richard
theism. See also God, belief in
theory
theory of mind (ToM)
13 going on 30 (film)
Third Man Factor, The (Geiger)
Thomson, Peter
Thorne, Kip
threat display
301 Club
Time
Tinbergen, Niko
Tipler, Frank
Tolstoy, Leo
Topsell, Edward
trade
Tragic Vision (of human nature)
trait-ascription bias
transcendentalists
trauma
tribal instincts
Trobriand Islanders
Trujillo, Rafael
Truth, The (Firmage)
Tufte, Edward
Tversky, Amos
Twilight Zone, The (TV show)
twin studies
Type I error (false-positive)
Type II error (false-negative)
tyranny of the magistrate
tyranny of the majority
UFOs
uncertainty
unconscious
Unconscious Quantum, The (Stenger)
unconstrained vision (of human nature)
universal life force
Universal Natural History (Kant)
universe, models of
Uptake I and II
Uranus
Urban VII, Pope
Urgesi, Cosimo
USA Today
U.S. Congress
U.S. Constitution
U.S. Embassy, attacks
Utopia Vision
vaccinations
variable interval (VI) reinforcement
Venter, J. Craig
ventral premotor cortex
ventral striatum
ventromedial prefrontal cortex
Verrill, Gary
Vesalius, Andreas
virgin birth myths
vision
visual cortex
VMAT2 gene
voices, hearing
volitional science
Voltaire
Von Hayek, Friedrich A.
Voyager I spacecraft
Wallace, Alfred Russel
Waller, Niels
Warden, Rob
Washington Times
“Waste Land, The” (Eliot)
Watergate scandal
Watkins, Connell
wave/particle models
Webb, John
Weiner, Bernard
Westen, Drew
“What Makes People Vote Republican?” (Haidt)
What the #$! Do We Know?! (film)
Whewell, William
Whinnery, Dr. James
White, Margaret
Whitson, Jennifer
Why God Won’t Go Away (Newberg and D’Aquili)
Why People Believe Weird Things (Shermer)
Wide World of Sports
Wiesel, Torsten
Williams, Robin
Williams, Ted
Wills, Christopher
Wilson, Ed
Wilson, Mount, Observatory
Wiseman, Richard
World Trade Center
attack of 1993
collapse of
worldviews, differences among
World War I
Wounded Knee massacre
Wovoka (Paiute visionary)
Wright, Steven
Wright, Thomas
X-Files, The (TV show)
Yahweh
Yinlugen Bud (Chewong god)
Zeckhauser, Richard
Zeitgeist (film)
Ziel, Fred
Zionist lobby
About the Author
MICHAEL SHERMER is the author of Why People Believe Weird Things, The Science of Good and Evil, and eight other books on the evolution of human beliefs and conduct. He is the founding publisher of Skeptic