U.S. Open (golf tournament), 29, 180, 182
Van Buren, President, 175
van Dijk, Wilco, 8, 9, 20, 26, 68
vegetarians, 75–76
vengeance, 105
vengeful urges/feelings, 87
victims, blaming of, 80–82
Vidal, Gore, 111–112
vindication, 105
vulnerable narcissists, 133–134
Waal, Frans de, xvii
Waite, Brad, xv, 96
Walden Two (Skinner), 5
Wannsee Conference, 154–157
The War of the Worlds (novel), 60
war, vs. lasting peace, 116
Watts, Amber, 96
Wegman, Jesse, 99, 108
Wesseling, Yoka, 8
Westwood, Lee, 179
Why is it Always About You? (Hotchkiss), 134
Why the Jews?: The Reasons for Anti-Semitism (Prager and Telushkin), 147–148
Wiesel, Elie, 69
Wiesenthal, Simon, 86
Wilde, Oscar, 74
Wildschut, Tim, 42
Wile E. Coyote, 54
Wills, Tom, 25–26, 27, 30
Wilson, Bill, 22
Wilson, Tim, 89
Wiltz, James, 105
Winn, Steven, 100
“winning,” laughter/humor and, 28–29
Wodehouse, P. G., 30–32, 195–196n39
World War I, Germany’s defeat in, 146
World War II, 157
Wolk, Josh, 105–106
Woods, Tiger, 29, 177–183, 187
Woolen, Saundra, 79, 82
Wooster, Bertie, 30, 184–185, 187
Yerkes National Primate Research Center, 12, 63
zero-sum game, 33–34
Zionism, 145. See also Jews
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