The Myth of Choice_ Personal Responsibility in a World of Limits - Kent Greenfield [104]
Bruner, Jerome, 106
Bryan, William Jennings, 8
building the ability to choose, 188–89, 196–97
Burbank, Stephen, 218n28
Burger King, 26, 28
burqa, 2, 73–74
Bush, George W., 64
Calabresi, Steven, 22, 175
Camus, Albert, 7–8
capacity to make better choices, 187, 200–201
Carbrera, Miguel, 165
card check bill, 32
casinos, 128–29, 222n10
causal chains, 157–60, 161–62
Chamber of Commerce, 32
chastity pledges, 205
Cheeseburger Bill (Personal Responsibility in Food Consumption Act), 33, 159
children and youth: agency in making choices, 9, 205–6
age of consent in law of sex, 41–42
capacity to resist bad influences, 189–90
child care, 77, 95
forgotten baby syndrome, 47–49, 51, 212n3
obedience of, 8–9, 107–8
President Barack Obama’s speech to, 143–45, 147
public school attendance, 39
suicide pacts, 157–58
teenagers on dating, 63
trafficking in, 138, 223n20
Children by Choice, 34
child trafficking, 138, 223n20
chips for gambling, 129, 222n10
choice: acknowledgment of limitations and irrational tendencies, 190–92
architecture of, 197–98
and assessment of danger, 12–14
bad choices, 16–19, 29–30, 169–70, 182
building the ability to choose, 188–89, 196–97
compulsion, 58, 82, 130–32, 133–34, 155
dissent and diversity encouraged for, 116–18, 168, 176, 202–3
expertise in making choices, 29–30, 132–33, 167–68, 173
government interventions in, 2, 136, 151–53, 197–98
information as basis for, 15–16
as meaningless, 28
memory, 50, 66–67, 190–92
mental contamination, 63–64
personal responsibility as, 146–53, 154–56, 157–58
power of situation and circumstance, 106–7, 180–81, 189–90, 194, 228n5
rhetoric of, 24–25, 31–35, 36–37
risk of regret, 29–30
sexuality as, 33–34
slogans, 1, 26–28, 32
strength of, 206. See also authority; brain damage; brain processes; coercion; culturally-mediated perceptions; decision making; free market; Milgram experiment; obedience; personal responsibility
Christianity, 23, 75, 89–90
cigarette companies, 130–31
Civil Rights Act (1964), 77
clergy wives, 76–77
Cleveland Indians, 163–64, 165
coercion, 32, 37–38
by authority figure, 101
in casinos, 129
choice, 35–36, 77–79
conditional funding of universities, 40–41
control of free speech, 39–41
economic need as source of, 10–12, 39, 125, 137–38, 201, 223n20
employment as source of, 10–11, 39, 201
influence, 111–13, 115
in Milgram experiment, 101
rape, 20–21, 43, 82–83, 172
scrip payments, 123–25
in sex work, 43–44, 201–2
threat of funding cutoff as, 40–41
in union organizing, 32
collective action problem, 135–36
colonoscopies, pain after, 67
commitments, 204–6
commodification of sex, 59–60, 62, 132, 138
Commonwealth v. Berkowitz, 80–82
company stores, 123–24
compulsion, 58, 82, 130–32, 133–34, 155
confirmation bias, 63, 176
congressional districts, gerrymandering of, 203
consensual searches, 38–39, 116, 179
consent: democratic consent, 30
for police searches, 38–39, 116, 177–79
in sexual relations, 20–21, 41–44, 77, 82–83, 172
consumer decisions: advertisements, 26, 27, 64–65, 93, 215n31
bikini effect, 59–60, 62, 132
brain in studies on, 61
in the collective action problem, 135–36
compulsive spending, 131–32
expert assistance in making choices, 29–30, 132–33, 167, 168
fast-food companies, 18, 26, 28–29, 33, 131, 159, 160
food options, 18, 27–28, 68, 159–60
gambling, 128–29, 131, 222n10
habits affecting, 59–62, 94, 132, 192–94
on health care, 31–32, 224n5, 224–25n7
impact on hometown businesses, 135–36
jam sampling experiment, 29, 133
memory, 50, 66–67, 190–92
in the presence of overwhelming choice, 29–30, 120–21
purchasing decisions, 61, 65–66, 121–22, 131–32
responsibility for obesity, 17–18, 159–60, 181, 199, 210n11
shopping in American culture, 92–93, 121
shortcuts in, 132–33, 134, 192–93
television, 27, 28, 30, 94–95
contracts and contract law, 20, 21