From the Book - First edition.
Introduction: What Is Rationality?
Part I. On Anger and Commitment
Chapter 1. What Is the Point of Getting Annoyed? Emotions as a Mechanism for Creating Commitments
Chapter 2. Why We Love Those Who Are Cruel to Us: Stockholm Syndrome and the Story of the Nazi Schoolteacher
Chapter 3. Emotional Impostors, Empathy, and Uncle Ezra's Poker Face
Chapter 4. Game Theory, Emotions, and the Golden Rule of Ethics
Chapter 5. The Prisoner's Dilemma in Repeated Interactions: Do Drawn Knives Increase Cooperation in the World?
Chapter 6. On Decency, Insult, and Revenge: Why Don't Suckers Suffer from Disgust?
Part II. On Trust and Generosity
Chapter 7. On Stigmas and Games of Trust: Why Did the Bees Commit Suicide?
Chapter 8. Self-Fulfilling Mistrust
Chapter 9. Cultural Differences, Palestinian Generosity, and Ruth's Mysterious Disappearance
Chapter 10. Collective Emotions and Uncle Walter's Trauma
Chapter 11. The Handicap Principle, the Ten Commandments, and Other Mechanisms for Ensuring Collective Survival
Chapter 12. Knowing How to Give, Knowing How to Receive: The Full Half of the Cholent
Part III. On Love and Sexuality
Chapter 13. The Spray That Will Give Us Love: On the Hormone that Creates Trust and Neutralizes Suspicion
Chapter 14. On Men, Women, and Evolution: Testing the Myths
Chapter 15. Make Me a Match Made in Heaven: Reproduction and the Mathematics of Romance
Chapter 16. From Cavemen Flutes to Bach Fugues: Why Did Evolution Create Art?
Part IV. On Optimism, Pessimism, and Group Behavior
Chapter 17. Why Are We So Negative? The Arithmetic of Emotions
Chapter 18. On Arrogance and Humility: The Norwegian Professor's Syndrome
Chapter 19. Overconfidence and Risk: The "It Can't Happen to Me" Syndrome
Chapter 20. The Voice Is Herd: On the Sources of Herd Behavior
Chapter 21. Team Spirit: The Paradox of the Generous Bonuses and the Lazy Workers
Part V. On Rationality, Emotions, and Genes
Chapter 22. Irrational Emotions
Chapter 23. Nature or Nurture: What Is the Source of Rational Emotions?
