The Social Animal

labor, division of, 1, 2

Langer, Ellen, 1

language: babies’ understanding of, 1;

behavioral economics and, 1, 2;

culture and, 1;

Erica’s marketing and, 1, 2;

Harold’s studies and, 1, 2;

of Harold’s teenage years, 1, 2;

heuristics and, 1;

intelligence and, 1;

norms and, 1;

public policy and, 1;

rationalism and, 1;

rules of, 1.

See also vocabulary

lantern consciousness, 1

Lareau, Annette, 1

laughter/humor, 1, 2

Lawson, Chappell, 1

leadership: in AA groups, 1;

characteristics of good, 1;

corporate, 1, 2;

cynicism about political, 1;

definitions of, 1;

and Erica as leader, 1;

good insights of, 1;

Harold’s vision of political, 1;

nature of, 1;

political, 1, 2;

public policy and, 1;

rationalism and, 1, 2;

world, 1

learning: academic, 1;

acquisition of knowledge and, 1;

aging and, 1;

automaticity and, 1, 2;

blank slate theory and, 1, 2;

and brain, 1;

brain and, 1;

consciousness/unconsciousness and, 1;

curiosity and, 1;

emotions and, 1, 2;

experience and, 1;

expertise and, 1;

face-to-face tutoring and, 1;

failure as step in, 1;

Harold’s studies of Greeks and, 1;

imagination and, 1;

imitation and, 1;

implicit, 1;

information and, 1;

institutional/academic, 1, 2;

knowledge and, 1, 2, 3, 4;

as linear, 1;

memory and, 1, 2;

mistakes and, 1, 2;

mother-child relationship and, 1;

motivation and, 1;

Ms. Taylor’s method for, 1;

norms and, 1;

perception and, 1;

as principle of progress, 1;

relationships and, 1, 2;

rhythm of, 1;

sleep and, 1;

socialization and, 1;

styles of, 1;

suffering and, 1;

unconscious models in head and, 1;

from video-and audiotapes, 1.

See also knowledge

learning-to-see model, 1

LeDoux, Joseph, 1

Lehrer, Jonah, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

Lenz, Gabriel, 1

Lepore, Jill, 1

Levitin, Daniel, 1

Lewis, C. S., 1, 2

liberals, 1, 2, 3

life: as change, 1;

complexity of, 1;

evolution of, 1;

happy, 1;

meaning in, 1, 2, 3;

phases of, 1;

questions asked by, 1;

as series of fragmented events, 1

lifestyle, 1, 2, 3, 4

limerence, 1, 2

Lincoln, Abraham, 1, 2, 3, 4

Lindenberg, Renee, 1

Lippmann, Walter, 1

Livingstone, Richard, 1

Lo, Andrew, 1

lobbyists, 1

Lodge, Milton, 1

loneliness, 1, 2, 3, 4

longevity, 1, 2, 3, 4

loss aversion, 1

lottery winners, 1

love: addiction compared with, 1;

ambition and, 1, 2;

attachment and, 1;

beginning of, 1;

brain and, 1;

choice to fall in, 1;

companionate, 1;

connections and, 1;

culture and, 1;

decision making about, 1;

Erica’s memo to herself and, 1;

eros and, 1;

first, 1;

at first sight, 1;

of friends, 1;

of Harold and Erica, 1, 2;

Harold’s question of himself about, 1;

and Harold’s studies of ancient Greece, 1;

Harold’s views about, 1;

limerence and, 1;

marriage and, 1;

in Middle Ages, 1;

mother-child, 1, 2;

motivation and, 1;

passionate, 1;

reasons for, 1;

self-deception about, 1

lovers’ walk, 1

Lowell, Amy, 1

loyalty, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Lydon, John, 1