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The Myth of Choice_ Personal Responsibility in a World of Limits - Kent Greenfield [109]

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International Union, 32

sex, commodification of, 2, 43–44, 59–60, 62, 132

sex tourism, 138

sexual harassment, 1–2, 77, 116

sexual relations: consent in, 20–21, 41–44, 77, 82–83, 172

cultural attitudes, 42

gay rights, 2, 20, 22, 33, 36, 40–41

sexual empowerment, 95–96

traditional responses to, 42, 82–83

sex workers, 2, 43–44, 201–2

Seymour, John, 193

shared responsibility, 159–62, 181–83

shopping: advertisements, 26, 27, 93

bikini effect, 59–60, 62, 132

buying preferred foods, 68

instant gratification, 61

jam sampling, 29, 133

malls, 92, 93

as show of patriotism, 92–93

Shore, James, 13, 112

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

The Silence of the Lambs, 53–54

Singer, Joseph, 162

situationalists, 180

slavery, 121

sleepwalking, 37

slogans, 1, 26–28, 32

snap judgments, 167–68

social contract, 21–22, 30

Solinger, Rickie, 34–35

Souter, David, Justice: as empathic, 177–79, 183

Kyles v. Whitley, 177–79

on police authority, 38–39

resignation of, 174

search and seizure, 38–39, 179

United States v. Drayton, 38–39, 179

Spiritual Warrior event, 111–13

statutory rape, 41–43

St. Augustine, 23

stereotypes, 77, 87, 96, 111, 217n22

StickK.com, 204–5

story telling, 173, 174–75, 177, 180, 182, 184

Sturgis, Ceara, 74

subliminal associations, 64–65, 215n31

substance dependencies, 21, 130–31, 222n13

Sudan, women’s rights in, 71–72

suicide pacts, 157–59

Sunstein, Cass, 197

supermarkets, 27–28

Supreme Court: conditional funding of universities, 41

on consensual searches, 38–39

flawed decisions of, 168

on freedom of religion, 39

on free speech, 39–40

on gay sex, 20

as homogeneous, 176–77

on imposing uniform penalties, 171

judicial empathy, 177–79

lack of self-reflection, 89–91, 218n28

Mojave cross case, 88–91

Obama appointments to, 174–75

on police authority, 38–39

search and seizure cases, 38–39, 179

on workplace risks, 10–12, 39, 125, 201

Tatian the Syrian, 23

tea partiers, 1, 2

television, 27, 28, 30, 94–95

temptation, 189–90, 228n5

texting while driving, 154–55

Thaler, Richard, 197

tobacco industry, 130–31

tort law, 33, 170, 171

torture, 105–6

Trading Places, 187

“trolley car problem,” 54–55, 56

Tversky, Amos, 63

umpires in baseball: apology of Jim Joyce, 166

flawed calls by, 165–66, 167, 173

judges compared with, 173–74, 179–80

union organizing, 32

United States v. Drayton, 38–39, 179

universities, free speech rights at, 40–41

University of Texas Austin, 56–58

ventromedial prefrontal cortex, 54, 56

victims of Hurricane Katrina, 14–16, 181

voluntary acts: criminal activity including, 37, 211n31

debt servitude, 125

employment as, 11–12

school attendance, 39

voluntary searches, 38–39, 116, 179

voting to restrict behaviors/choice, 154–56

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

wall of separation, 88, 217n23

Walmart, 135

Warner, Judith, 97

Wendy’s commercial, 28–29

West Virginia State Bd. of Education v. Barnette, 39

“wheel of fortune” experiment (Kahneman and Tversky), 63–64

Whitman, Charles, 56–58

willpower, 50, 189, 212n7, 228n5

wisdom of crowds, 168

women: brain chemistry’s impact on, 61

case of Lubna Hussein, 71–72, 85

as clergy wives, 76–77

cultural norms on dress, 71–75, 77

domestic roles of, 76–77

employment options for, 78, 97

gender roles, 94–96

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

mothers’ autonomy, 97

sexual freedom, 96

work, 1–2, 32, 78, 97, 126–27

Workforce Fairness Institute, 32

Workforce Freedom Initiative, 32, 211n7

workplace safety, 10–12, 39, 125, 201

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