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for homelessness, 160–61

hurricane victims, 14–16

motorcycle helmets, 146, 147–48, 149, 150, 151

of Mount Hood climbers, 16–17, 183

President Obama’s address on, 143–45, 147

for shortcuts to decision making, 132–33, 134, 192–93

suicide, 157–58. See also brain damage; brain processes

personal-responsibility-as-choice: consequences, 146–52

imposed cost on society, 151

legal consequences of, 151–53, 155–56, 157–58

medical attention as a result of not being responsible, 151

as pure choice, 146–49

suicide, 157–58

Personal Responsibility in Food Consumption Act (Cheeseburger Bill), 33, 159

Phillips, Will, 91–92

physical appearance: biases in decision making, 63, 214–15n27

bikini effect, 59–60, 62, 128, 132

judging people by, 17–18, 191, 210n11

presumptions of guilt, 63, 214n27

pleasure centers of the brain, 59

Pledge of Allegiance, 39, 40, 91–92, 203–4

police: consensual searches, 38–39, 116, 170, 177–79

hidden evidence, 177, 178

obedience to, 109–11, 116

search and seizure, 38–39, 116, 179

political advertisements, 64–65, 215n31

Posner, Richard, 130

poverty, 15, 127, 160–62

pre-commitments, 204–5

preferences: created by the market, 134, 176

cultural context of, 78–79

in decision making, 154–55, 225n9

prediction of, 66–69

prices influencing, 63–64, 65, 121–22

used by rational actors, 129–30

prefrontal cortex, 49–51, 53, 54, 56

priming, 63–64

property law, 170

public policy: capacity to make better choices, 200–201

commitments as public policy tool, 204–6

encouraging dissent and diversity, 202–3

good decisions encouraged by, 197–98

personal-responsibility-as-choice, 146–49

public school attendance as choice, 39

punishment: cultural insistence on individuality as basis for, 182

influence of brain science on, 52–53

influence of physical appearance on, 215n27

intent as basis of, 51–53, 213n9

and remedies, 171

scientific research on, 98–102

racial stereotypes, 87, 111

rape: in the case of Robert Berkowitz, 80–82

coercion, 43, 172

defining, 80–81, 82

domestic, 42, 77

force as defining, 82

the meaning of “no,” 82–83, 172, 216–17n15

physical force used in, 42, 43, 82–83

as sex without consent, 20–21, 41–44, 77, 82–83, 172

spousal rape exception, 42, 77

rational actor theory, 55–56, 129–30

“a rational frog,” 130

rationality: and the capacity to choose, 190–92

economists on, 55–56, 129–30

impact on brain injuries on, 56–58

rational actor theory, 55–56, 129–30

“RATS” advertisement (Bush campaign), 64–65, 215n31

Ray, James Arthur, 111–13, 115, 183

reality televison, 106, 219n10

religion: atheism, 93–94

consistency of religious faith, 94, 218–19n35

culturally-mediated perceptions of, 73–74, 89–90

displays on government property, 88–89

free speech and, 39

gender roles in, 23, 39, 71–77

Rensaleer, Jan, 117–18

residence constitutes consent, 21–22

responsibilities before the fact (ex ante), 170–71

rhetoric of choice, 24–25, 31–35, 36–37

risk: of bad situations, 180–81, 189–90, 228n5

choice to accept, 10–12, 201–2

gambling, 128–29, 131, 222n10

injury at baseball games (Costa v. Boston Red Sox), 12–13, 17, 19, 20

of personal-responsibility-as-choice, 155

and responsibility for injury, 12–13

sexual relations, 80–82

in sex work, 43–44, 201–2

situations that are risky, 10–12, 201–2

substance dependencies, 21, 130–31, 222n13

understanding, 12–13

workplace safety, 10–12, 39, 125, 201

Roberts, John, Justice, 173, 174

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 21–22, 31

Salazar v. Buono, 88–91

same-sex marriage, 33

Santorum, Rick, Sen., 14

Sapolsky, Robert, 58

Sarkozy, Nicholas, 74

Scalia, Antonin, Justice, 88–91, 218n28

scarcity, 127–28, 221–22n8

schemas (rules of thumb), 192–93

Schor, Juliet, 93

Schwartz, Barry, 65

scorpion and the frog parable, 185–86

scrip, 123–25

search and seizure, 38–39, 116, 179

seminary students, 195–96

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