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Index 631Auditory perception, 183, 530, 535-536. See also Music; SpeechAuditory system, 183-184Austen, Jane, 360Australian aborigines, 202, 311, 376, 510Australopithecus, 198-199, 200, 201-202Autism, 30, 48, 331-332Auto-associators, 104-107, 126Axelrod, Robert, 503, 582, 584, 586Ayala, Francisco, 574Baars, Bernard, 571, 572Back-propagation, 110Baddeley, Alan, 570Baillargeon, Renee, 318, 578Baker, Robin, 567, 584Bakweri (Cameroon), 482Baldwin, James Mark, 179Baldwin effect, 179Ballard, Dana, 570Bangladesh, 512, 529Bankers Paradox, 507Bargaining, 409-410, 412Barkow, Jerome, 568, 581, 587Baron-Cohen, Simon, 329, 331-332, 578, 579Basal ganglia, 370Bates, Elizabeth, 206, 574Baumeister, Roy, 582Bayes' Theorem, 243, 344Bayesian inference, in perception, 243-245, 252-253, 255; in reasoning, 344, 347-348,349Beale, Ivan, 276, 573, 576, 577Beauty, faces and bodies, 393, 473, 483-487, 493, 526; geometric patterns, 526-528;landscapes and surroundings, 374—378, 526; and status, 500Behavior genetics, 20-21, 32, 45, 332, 448-449Behaviorism, 42, 57, 62-63, 180, 182, 329, 387-388Behrman, Marlene, 273, 576Belew, Rick, 573Belief-desire psychology, 24-25, 62-64, 87-88, 323, 329, 492Bell, Quentin, 271, 493, 501, 522, 576, 585, 586, 587Bellis, Mark, 584Benchley, Robert, 306Benedict, Ruth, 556Beneffectance, 422Bentham, Jeremy, 389Berkeley, George, 113, 115, 296, 316, 560, 571Berlin, Brent, 325, 578Bernstein, Leonard, 529, 587Berra, Yogi, 343Bettelheim, Bruno, 331, 579Betzig, Laura, 206, 440, 476, 477, 574, 583, 584, 586Bever, Tom, 571Bible, 50, 133, 439, 490, 511-512, 554, 555