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fallibility, 165–68

familiarity effects, 63, 176

fast-food companies, 18, 26, 28–29, 33, 131, 159, 160

Federal Emergency Management Agency, 14

First Amendment rights, 50, 88, 92

flawed decisions, 165–66, 173, 184

flogging, 71–72

Food Consumption Act, 33, 158

food options, 17–18, 27–28, 33, 68, 159–60, 210n11

force as defining rape, 82

forgotten baby syndrome, 47–49, 51, 212n3

Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (FAIR), 41

France, 72–74

Frankfurter, Felix, Justice, 39

“Free Choice Now” (union organizing slogan), 32

free market: access to consumer goods, 119–21

anti-fraud laws, 122, 123

in the case of Abby (Albert Carroll), 125–26

collective action problem, 135–36

craving created by, 59–60, 62, 131–32, 134, 176

dependent on choice, 122

impact on hometown businesses, 135–36

for labor, 121

limits of, 122, 125–28, 129, 133–34, 181

manipulation of habits by, 192–93

mental contamination, 65–66

monetarization of everything, 3, 137–40, 138, 201–2, 223n20

price mechanism, 121–22

product placement, 65–66, 131

public policy, 199

rational actors theory, 55–56, 129–30

scarcity created by, 127–28, 221–22n8

valorization of products, 120, 121

wages in the, 121, 126–28, 220–21n3, 221–22n8

free speech, 39–41, 204

women’s clothing in cases of, 71–77

future predictions, 67–68

Galarraga, Armando, 163–66, 167, 169, 173, 183, 184

Gallup Poll, 93

gambling, 128–29, 131, 222n10

Gates, Henry Louis, 110

gay rights, 2, 20, 22, 33, 36, 40–41, 91

gender norms: in the case of Lubna Hussein, 71–72, 85

child care, 77, 95

clothing, 71–77

domesticity, 76–77

sexual freedom, 95–96

shopping habits, 59–62, 132

women’s behavior, 76–77. See also rape; women

Gilbert, Daniel, 67

Gladwell, Malcolm, 167

Good Samaritan parable, 195–96

government interventions, 2, 40–41, 136, 151–53, 197–98

groups and group processes: dissent in, 116–18, 176, 202–3

diversity, 168, 202–3

empathy, 176–77

groupthink, 169

herd instinct, 176, 177

homogeneity, 176–77

peer pressure, 104–5, 168, 176

wisdom of crowds, 168

guilt: based on conduct, 37–38, 211n31

cultural norms influencing presumptions of, 82–83

evidence of brain damage, 57–58

physical appearance in presumptions of, 63, 214n27

habitability, 170

habits, 59–62, 94, 132, 192–94

Hannibal Lecter (The Silence of the Lambs), 53–54

Hanson, Jon, 180–81

happiness, memories of, 66–67

“Hatchet in the head case.” See Lamson v. American Axe and Tool Co.

“Have It Your Way” (Burger King slogan), 26, 28

head coverings for women, 72, 75

health care reform, 31–32, 153–54, 224n5, 224–25n7

heat of passion, 52, 213n9

helmet-wearing, 146, 147–48, 149, 150–51

herd instinct, 176, 177

heroin addiction, 131, 222n13

hidden evidence, 177, 178

hijabs, 72–73

hippocampus, 49, 51

Hitchens, Christopher, 93

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr., Justice, 10–11, 39, 201

homelessness, 160–62

homosexuality, 2, 33, 36

How We Decide (Lehrer), 167

human trafficking, 137–38, 201–2

Hurricane Katrina, 14–16, 169, 181

Hussein, Lubna, 71–72, 85

incentives for commitment, 204–5

insula (pain, disgust), 61

intellectual empathy, 177, 180, 182–83

Islam, 72–74

Iyengar, Sheena, 188–89

Jackson, Robert, Justice, 39

jam sampling, 29, 133

Jeter, Jon, 127

Jewish war veterans, 89, 90

Jong, Erica, 96

Joyce, Jim (baseball umpire): apology of, 166

flawed call by, 165–66, 167, 173

reputation of, 165

judges, 173–74, 175–76, 179–80

juries, 83–85

Kahan, Dan, 82–85

Kahneman, Daniel, 63

Kennedy, Anthony, 90

kidney trafficking, 137–38, 139

Kurkjian, Tim, 166

Kyles, Curtis, 177–78

Kyles v. Whitley, 177–78

labor, free market for, 121

Lamson, Henry, 10–12, 39, 125, 201

Lamson v. American Axe and Tool Co., 10–12, 13, 201

language, lack of clarity in, 170–73

Lehrer, Jonah, 167

Levy, Ariel, 96

Lewis, C. S., 23

libertarianism, 1, 2, 122, 151, 153, 197, 198,