The Myth of Choice_ Personal Responsibility in a World of Limits - Kent Greenfield [107]
“living green,” as public commitment, 205
Locke, John, 31
Mad Men, 1–2
Maher, Bill, 93
malice aforethought, 52–53
mandates, 31, 75–76, 150, 196–97
manipulations: advertisements as, 26, 27, 64–65, 93, 215n31
bikini effect, 59–60, 62, 128, 132
brains as susceptible to, 59–63
by cigarette companies, 130–31
as constraints on choice, 129, 222n10
of consumer choice, 65–66, 92–93
of the environment, 128–29
of habits, 192–93
the market commodifying things that we don’t want to commodify, 3, 137–38, 201–2, 223n20
mental contamination, 63–66
of shopping decisions, 65–66, 67
in study of teenagers, 63–64
in “wheel of fortune” experiment (Kahneman and Tversky), 63–64. See also Milgram experiment
manslaughter, 52–53, 213n10
Marcus, Gary, 51, 63
marriage, 33, 42, 76, 77, 189, 204, 205
McDonald’s, 18, 120, 131, 159
medical malpractice, 33
memory, 50, 66–67, 190–92
men: bikini effect, 59–60, 62, 132
domestic roles of, 77
overestimate the sexual interest of prospective mates, 62
mental contamination, 63–66
Milgram, Stanley, 102, 103, 104, 105–6, 107, 117
Milgram experiment: contemporary reconstructions of, 106–7
design of, 99–102
electrical shocks administered to learner, 99, 100–101
obedience rates, 98–103, 101, 102, 103–5, 107, 219n9
personal responsibility of teachers in, 103–5, 117–18
predictions of teachers’
behavior, 103
punishing the learner, 168
willingness of teachers to shock learners, 101–2, 103–6, 117
military recruitment on campus, 40–41
mining companies, 123–25
Mojave cross case, 88–91
motivated reasoning, 63, 176
motorcycles, 146, 147–48, 149, 150, 151–53
Mount Hood climbers, 16–17, 183
muggings, 86–87
Muslim women, 72–74
National Abortion Rights Action League, 34
national anthems, 92
nationalism, 91–92
national service programs, 203
nature, 185–87
nature-nurture debate, 187, 200–201
Neuman, Liz, 112
“no” (use of word), 82–83, 172, 216–17n15
nucleus accumbens (pleasure center of the brain), 61
“nudges” (Thaler and Sunstein), 197–98
numbers in cognitive experiments, 50, 63–64
Obama administration: in the case of Prof. Henry Louis “Skip” Gates, 110
health care reform, 31–32, 153–54
President’s address to children, 143–45, 147
Supreme Court appointments, 174–75
ObamaCare, 31–32, 153–54
obedience: to authority figures, 112–13
avoiding danger, 107–8, 113–14
challenges to, 109–11, 113–16, 117–18
of children, 107–8
courage to question authority, 113–14
to cult figures, 111–13, 115, 183
dangers and risks of, 113–16
experiment in (See Milgram experiment); intimidation, 114–15
to parents, 107–8
to police authority, 109–11, 116
and right of refusal, 116
willingness to follow authority, 101–2, 103–6, 219n9
obesity: empathy for, 181
negative perceptions of, 17–18, 210n11
public policy, 199
responsibility for, 18, 159–60
O’Connor, Joseph, 193
Odorizzi, Donald, 36
Odorizzi v. Bloomfield School District, 36–37
on-line shopping, 121
organ trafficking, 137–38, 139
overwhelming choice, 29–30, 133
pain: insula (pain, disgust), 61, 222n10
memory of, 67
in scientific research on punishment, 98–103
willingness to accept, 113–14
willingness to inflict, 101, 102, 103–7, 219n9
Palin, Sarah, 33
parables, 185–86, 195–96
parents and parenthood, 77, 107–8, 138, 205–6
Parks, Rosa, 85
pastor’s wife, 76
patriotism, 39, 40, 91–93, 203–4
peer pressure, 104–5, 168, 176, 189–90
Pelman v. McDonald’s Corp., 18
personal responsibility: blameworthiness, 14–16, 160–62, 169, 180, 181–83
causal chain of, 157–60, 160–62
children’s, 107–8
consequences of irresponsibility, 146–47
and the constraints of human character, 185–88
for criminal activity, 37, 211n31
defining, 146, 147–48
deliberate intentional acts, 51–53, 158, 159, 213n9
for eating habits, 17–18, 33, 158, 198, 210n11
for education, 39, 143–45
for habits, 192–93
for health care,