| | | | Part One: Spies and Diplomats: Two Puzzles |
| 1 | | | Fidel Castro's Revenge |
| | Florentino | Aspillaga | A Cuban intelligence officer. |
| | Fidel | Castro | Former Prime Minister of Cuba. |
| | Martha | | Aspillaga's girlfriend. |
| | Brian | Latell | Rans the CIA's Latin American office. |
| | | el Alpinista | A CIA agent. Aka: Mountain Climber. |
| | Marcus | Wolf | A German spy chief. |
| | Aldrich | Ames | A former CIA officer turned KGB double agent. |
| | John | Sullivan | An English television scriptwriter responsible for British sitcoms. |
| 2 | | | Getting to Know der Fuhrer |
| | Neville | Chamberlain | Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. |
| | Adolf | Hitler | A German politician and leader of the Nazi Party. |
| | | Halifax | Chamberlain's foreign secretary. |
| | Franklin D. | Roosevelt | 32nd U.S. President. |
| | Joseph | Stalin | Former Premier of the Soviet Union. |
| | Winston | Churchill | Former Prime Minister of the U.K. Chamberlain's successor. |
| | Diana | Mitford | British political leader. |
| | Joachim von | Ribbentrop | A Foreign Minister of Nazi Germany. |
| | Ida | | One of Chamberlain's sisters. |
| | Hilda | | One of Chamberlain's sisters. |
| | Mahatma | Gandhi | An Indian lawyer. |
| | Hermann | Göring | One of the most powerful figures in the Nazi Party. |
| | Joseph | Goebbels | German Nazi politician and Reich Minister. |
| | Nevile | Henderson | Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Nazi Germany. |
| | Duff | Cooper | Former Minister of Information. |
| | Anthony | Eden | Former Foreign Secretary. |
| | Solomon | | The judge. |
| | Sendhil | Mullainathan | An American professor of Computation and Behavioral Science. |
| | Benito | Mussolini | Former Prime Minister of Italy. |
| | Édouard | Daladier | Prime Minister of France at the outbreak of World War II. |
| | Emily | Pronin | A psychologist. |
| | William Lyon | King | Former Prime Minister of Canada. |
| | | | Part Two Default to Truth |
| 3 | | | The Queen of Cuba |
| | Bill | Clinton | 42nd U.S. President. |
| | Eugene | Carroll | A rear admiral in the United States Navy. |
| | Rosales | del Toro | A former Cuban Minister of Agriculture. |
| | Pete | Wilson | Elected Governor of California. |
| | Timothy R. | Levine | An American communication professor. Aka: Tim. |
| | Bernard | Madoff | American market maker and financier. Aka: Bernie. |
| | Jerry | Sandusky | American football coach. |
| | Reginald J. | Brown | United States Assistant Secretary of the Army. Aka: Reg. |
| | Juan Pablo | Roque | A former major in the Cuban air force. |
| | Ana Belén | Montes | Senior analyst at DIA in the US
- convicted as a spy. |
| | George John | Tenet | A former Director of Central Intelligence. |
| | Scott W. | Carmichael | DIA's counterintelligence officer. |
| | Tito | Montes | Became FBI officers. Ana Montes' younger brother. |
| | William | Shakespeare | An English playwright, poet, and actor. |
| | Rachel | | An instructor. |
| | John F. | Kennedy | 35th U.S. President. |
| | Philip | | One of the scholars who studied human deception. |
| | Lucas | | One of the scholars who studied human deception. |
| | Hee Sun | Park | One of Levine's graduate students. |
| | Stanley | Milgram | American social psychologist. |
| | John | Williams | American composer. |
| | Jim | McDonough | Williams' acquaintance. Aka: Mr. Wallace. |
| | Gina | Perry | A psychologist and writer. |
| | Joe | Dimow | A retired toolmaker. |
| | Chris | Farley | An American actor and comedian. |
| | Paul | Ekman | American professor at the University of California. |
| 4 | | | The Holy Fool |
| | Nathaniel | Simon | American businessman and philanthropist aka: Nat. |
| | Henry | Laufer | American mathematician, investor and philanthropist. |
| | Paul G. | Broder | Vice President, Director at Renaissance Technologies Corp. |
| | Peter | Lamore | SEC investigator. |
| | Robert | Sollazzo | Lamore's boss. |
| | Harry | Markopolos | A forensic accounting and financial fraud investigator. |
| | Eliot | Spitzer | American politician, and 54th Governor of New York. |
| | James Jesus | Angleton | The chief of CIA Counterintelligence. |
| 5 | | | Case Study: The Boy in the Shower |
| | Michael Jacob | McQueary | Football asst. coach for Pennsylvania State University. |
| | Laura | Ditka | Deputy Attorney General for the State of Pennsylvania. |
| | Joe | Paterno | The head coach of the Penn State University football team. |
| | Tim | Curley | The athletic director at Penn State University. |
| | Gary | Schultz | The senior administrator at Penn State University. |
| | Graham | Spanier | The President of the Penn State University. |
| | Bob | Costas | NBC sports anchor. |
| | E.J. | | Sandusky's son. |
| | Dottie | | Sandusky's wife. |
| | Joe | Posnanski | An American sports journalist. |
| | Alycia | Chambers | A Clinical Psychologist in State College. |
| | Aaron | Fisher | Sandusky's acquaintance. |
| | Mike | Gillum | A child psychologist. |
| | John | Seasock | A counselor. |
| | Jonathan | Dranov | An internal medicine specialist, with a focus in nephrology. |
| | John | Ziegler | A documentary film writer/director, and journalist. |
| | Jonelle | Eshbach | A prosecuting attorney. |
| | Larry | Nassar | USA Gymnastics team doctor and osteopathic physician. |
| | Rachael | Denhollander | Former gymnast and the first woman to publicly accuse Nassar. |
| | Larissa | Boyce | Former gymnast who also accused Larry Nassar. |
| | Kathie | Klages | Former Michigan State University women's gymnastic coach. |
| | Trinea | Gonczar | A gymnast who was treated by Nassar. |
| | Allan | Myers | Sandusky's acquaintance. |
| | Curtis | Everhart | A private investigator. |
| | Brett Swisher | Houtz | Sandusky's acquaintance. |
| | Ellaine | Steinbacher | Brett's girlfriend. |
| | Wendell | Courtney | The Penn State lawyer. |
| | John | Raykovitz | A Clinical Psychologist in State College. |
| | | | Part Three Transparency |
| 6 | | | The Friends Fallacy |
| | Jennifer | Fugate | A psychologist. |
| | Charles | Darwin | English naturalist, geologist and biologist. |
| | Sergio | Jarillo | An anthropologist. |
| | Carlos | Crivelli | A psychologist. |
| | Edvard | Munch | A Norwegian painter. |
| | Maria | Gendron | Assistant Professor of Psychology, Yale University. |
| | Mary | Beard | An English scholar of Ancient Roman
civilization. |
| | Cicero | | Roman statesman. |
| | Franz | Kafka | A German-speaking Jewish novelist. |
| | Achim | Schützwohl | A German psychologist. |
| | Rainer | Reisenzein | A Professor for General psychology, University of Greifswald. |
| | Patrick Dale | Walker | Texan arrested for attempting to murder his girlfriend. |
| 7 | | | A(Short) Explanation of the Amanda Knox Case |
| | Amanda Marie | Knox | American woman spent almost four years in Italian prison. |
| | Meredith | Kercher | A British student who was murdered at the age of 21. |
| | Rudy | Guede | Drug dealer was suspect in the Meredith Kercher murder. |
| | Raffaele | Solleciti | Amanda Knox's boyfriend. |
| | Nick | Pisa | A British journalist. |
| | O. J. | Simpson | American football running back. |
| | JonBenét | Ramsey | An American child beauty queen who was killed at the age of 6. |
| | Peter | Gill | A Theatre director. |
| | Sally | | Levine's acquaintance. |
| | Michael | Ocrant | The Director of Conference Programming. |
| | John | Follain | One who writes on Italian politics and European affairs. |
| | Sophie | | One of Meredith Kercher's friends. |
| | Nathalie | | One of Meredith Kercher's friends. |
| | Lila Diane | Sawyer | An American television broadcast journalist. |
| | Rita | Ficarra | A cop. |
| | Edgardo | Giobbi | A police officer. |
| | Giuliano | Mignini | An Italian magistrate. |
| | Dzhokhar A. | Tsarnaev | A Kyrgyz-American terrorist of Chechen descent. |
| | Nadine | Pellegrini | Assistant United States Attorney. |
| | Lisa F. | Barrett | Professor of psychology at Northeastern University. |
| | Thomas | Dibblee,Jr. | An American geologist. Aka: Tom |
| 8 | | | Case Study: The Fraternity Party |
| | Peter | Jonsson | One of a Swedish graduate students. |
| | Carl Fredrik | Arndt | Jonsson's friend. |
| | Brock | Turner | A student of Stanford who was convicted of three felonies. |
| | Emily | Doe | A woman under the protection of sexual-assault law. |
| | Lou | Shaw | A screenwriter. |
| | Colleen | | One of Emily Doe's friends. |
| | Trea | | One of Emily Doe's friends. |
| | Julia | | One of Emily Doe's friends. |
| | Dwight B. | Heath | A Research Professor of Anthropology at Brown University. |
| | Anna | | Dwight Heath's wife. |
| | Leon | Greenberg | An Employment Attorney in Las Vegas. |
| | Mac | Marshall | A professor of anthropology at the University of Iowa. |
| | Ralph L. | Beals | An anthropologist at the University of California. |
| | Claude | Steele | An African-American social psychologist. |
| | Robert | Josephs | American Professor of Psychology at The University of Texas. |
| | Benjamin | Bree | A computer software engineer. |
| | Aaron | White | Worked at the National Institutes of Health. |
| | Donald W. | Goodwin | A psychiatrist and an alcohol researcher. |
| | Kim | Fromme | The Director of the Studies on Alcohol, Health, and Risky. |
| | Emily J. | Yoffe | An American journalist and contributing writer for The Atlantic. |
| | Craig | MacAndrew | A Licensed Professional Counselor, Kansas City. |
| | Robert B. | Edgerton | A Professor of Psychiatry, UC Los Angeles. |
| | Tara | MacDonald | Associate Professor of Graduate Studies, Dept.of Psychology |
| | Ashton K. | Carrick | A college senior student at the University of North Carolina. |
| | | | Part Four Lessons |
| 9 | | | KSM: What Happens When the Stranger Is a Terrorist? |
| | James | Mitchell | A psychologist by training. |
| | Khalid Sheikh | Mohammed | A Pakistani terrorist. Aka: KSM. |
| | Bruce | Jessen | Mitchell's colleague. |
| | Jean-Claude | Van Damme | A Belgian actor and retired martial artist. |
| | Abu | Zubaydah | An alleged Al Qaeda operative captured in Pakistan. |
| | Daniel | Pearl | An American journalist for The Wall Street Journal. |
| | Osama | bin Laden | The founder of the pan-Islamic militant organization al-Qaeda. |
| | Charles | Morgan | A psychiatrist. |
| | Abu | Hafs | Egyptian national, a member of Islamic Jihad aka:al-Masri. |
| | John Paul II | | Former head of the Catholic Church. |
| | Shane | O'Mara | A Professor of Experimental Brain Research at Trinity College. |
| | Robert | Baer | An American author and a former CIA case officer. |
| | Bruce | Riedel | A senior fellow in the Saban Center for Middle East Policy. |
| | Jimmy | Carter | 39th U.S. President. |
| | Brian | Encinia | A state trooper. |
| | Sandra | Bland | An African American woman who was found hanged in a jail cell. |
| | | | Part Five Coupling |
| 10 | | | Sylvia Plath |
| | Sylvia | Plath | An American poet, novelist, and short-story writer. |
| | Ted | Hughes | Sylvia Plath's husband. |
| | William Butler | Yeats | An Irish poet. |
| | Alfred | Alvarez | An English poet, novelist, essayist and critic. |
| | Jillian | Becker | Sylvia's friend. |
| | Gary | Becker | Jillian's husband. |
| | Charles | Dickens | An English writer and social critic. |
| | Ronald | Clarke | A criminologist. |
| | Richard | Seiden | A psychologist. |
| | John | Bateson | Exec. director of a nationally certified suicide prevention center. |
| | David | Weisburd | An American-Israeli criminologist. |
| | Larry | Sherman | A young criminologist. |
| | Esther | Greenwood | The protagonist in Sylvia Plath's novel The Bell Jar. |
| | Cal | | Esther's acquaintance. |
| | Anne | Sexton | An American poet. |
| | George | Starbuck | American poet. |
| | Diane | Middlebrook | American biographer. |
| | Ernest | Hemingway | An American journalist, novelist, short-story writer, |
| | Stephan | Spencer | A three-time author under the O'Reilly Media. |
| | Gene | Sprague | Committed suicide - jumped from
SF Golden Gate Bridge. |
| 11 | | | Case Study: The Kansas City Experiments |
| | O. W. | Wilson | American police officer. |
| | George L. | Kelling | American criminologist. |
| | Lee | Brown | The chief of the New York City Police Department. |
| | George W. | Bush | 43rd U.S. President. |
| | Lawrence W. | Sherman | American criminologist. |
| | James | Shaw | A graduate student in criminology. |
| | Robert T. | Gallagher | New York City Police officer. |
| | David | Harris | A legal scholar. |
| | Barak | Ariel | A lecturer in the Police Executive Program. |
| 12 | | | Sandra Bland |
| | Charles | Remsberg | The author of The Tactical Edge. |
| | Cleve | Renfro | A state investigator. |
| | Louis | Sanchez. | One of the investigators on Sandra Bland's case. |
| | Michael | White | A man who was shot dead by a police officer. |
| | Darren | Wilson | A police officer. |
| | Chiraag | Bains | One of the leaders of the DOJ team. |
| | Hippocrates | | A Greek physician. |
