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self-interest and,
82
–86

Kant, Immanuel,
1
,
67

karma,
81
.
See also
justice

Keltner, Dacher,
xvii

Kennedy, John F.,
119

Kentucky basketball fans,
38
–39,
41

Kerry, John,
24
,
45

Kim, Sung Hee,
90

Kimmel, Jimmy,
101

Kinsley, Michael,
74
,
117

Kipling, Rudyard,
164

Klaas, Polly,
102

Koningsbruggen, Guido van,
8

Koren, Ed,
79

Kovach, Bill,
19

Kraft durch Freude
(“Strength through Joy”),
152

Kristallnacht
,
151
–152

Krizan, Zlatan,
133
,
134

Krusty the Clown
,
51

Kubizek, August,
146

Laettner, Christian,
38

“Lake Wobegon effect,”
192
n
31

Lamborghini,
120
–121

Land of Nod,
127

laughter.
See
superiority theory of humor

Lazare, Bernard,
218
n
25

Leach, Colin,
133
,
153

Lee, General Robert E.,
173

Leno, Jay,
120

Leonard, Justin,
43
–44

Lerner, Melvin,
80

Leviathan
(Hobbes),
27

Levin, Brian,
25

Life on the Mississippi
(Twain),
112

Lilliputians,
122

likeability, envy and,
121
–122

Lincoln, Abraham,
xvii
,
172
–176

Linz, Austria,
143
,
146

Lord of the Flies
(Golding),
59

Lost in the Cosmos
(Percy),
112

Louisiana Tech,
38
,
40

love, competition for,
49
–50

Lovell, Jim,
xiii
,
189
n
3

low-status, adaptive benefits and,
12

luxury items, flaunting of,
120
–121

lynching,
158

Madoff, Bernie,
68
–70,
82

The Magic Flute
(Mozart),
136

Makes Me Wanna Holler
(McCall),
17
–20

Malcolm X,
67
,
85

Mandel, Howie,
97
–98

Mandela, Nelson,
182

Mao: The Unknown Story
(Chang and Halliday),
116

Mao Tse-tung,
116

“March Madness,”
39

The Marriage of Figaro
(Mozart),
136

Martha Stewart Living
(Stewart),
117

Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia,
117

Martin, Ricky,
93

Marx, Groucho,
28

Masters, The,
43

“mate value,”
11

math ability, perception of,
14
–16,
15
f

mating game,
51

McCain, John,
46
,
47
f

McCall, Nathan,
17
–20

McClane, John
,
107

McCollam, Douglas,
102
–103

McCullough, Michael,
xvii

McDonald's (restaurant),
17

McKale, Donald,
152
,
155

Meade, General,
173
–174

meat-eaters, self-consciousness of,
75
–76

medial prefrontal cortex,
111

Mein Kampf
(Hitler),
143

“me-monsters,”
5

Michael Kohlhaas
(novella),
88

Michigan State University,
85

Mickelson, Phil,
179

Midsummer Night's Dream
(Shakespeare),
37

Milgram, Stanley,
166
–169

Milton, John,
128

“minimal group paradigm,”
35

misfortune.
See also
deserved misfortune

deservingness of,
48
,
202
n
19

of friends,
50
–51

gain from others,'
xii
–xiv

pleasure from deserved,
xiv

Miss Teen USA Pageant,
23

Monin, Benoit,
75

monkeys, in unequal treatment studies,
12
–13

moral behavior.
See
hypocrites

Moral Compass: Stories for a Life's Journey
(Bennett),
74

moral limits.
See
Nazis Morse, Stan,
6
–7

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus,
110
,
125
,
135
–138,
181
,
211
n
5

“Mr. Clean/Mr. Dirty” comparisons,
6
–8

Murphy, Jeffrie,
87
–88

My German Question
(Gay),
47
,
198
n
33

Napoleon,
53

narcissism,
60
,
133
–134

NASA,
45

NASA lunar mission,
xiii

National Collegiate Athletic Association,
38

The National Enquirer
,
115
–116,
178

Nation of Islam,
85

natural narcissism,
60

Nazis.
See also
Hitler, Adolf

in
The Doctor and the Damned
,
58
–59

envy of Jews,
xvi
–xvii,
142
–143,
148

Kristallnacht
,
151
–152

in
My German Question
,
47

persecution/murder of Jews,
142

revenge on,
86
–87

scapegoating of Jews,
147
–151

New England Patriots,
40

New York Jets,
41

New York Stock Exchange,
117

The New York Times
,
xv
,
19
,
117
,
157

The New Yorker
,
117

New Yorker
cartoons,
21
,
33
,
79

Nicklaus, Jack “The Golden Bear,”
177

Nietzsche, Friedrich,
51
,
132
–133,
147
,
218
n
25

“no-fair” game,
12
–14

Nordegren, Elin,
183

1935 Nuremberg Laws,
156

Oates, Constable
,
31
–32,
184

Obama, Barack,
44
,
46
–47,
47
f
,
53
–54

obedience to authority,
166
–169

Ohlmeyer, Don,
178
–179

O'Keefe, Walter,
4
–5

Olazábal, José María,
43
–44

Old Testament of Hebrew Bible,
127

omnivores, self-consciousness of,
75
–76

Orwell, George,
33
,
49
,
98

Oscar (Academy Award),
9

other-interest, self-interest and,
xiii
–xiv,
51
–54

outgroups/outgroup antipathy,
29
,
35
,
37
,
42
–43,
47
,
149
–150,
197
n
15

outrunning grizzly bear joke,
xii

Ouwerkerk, Jaap,
8

Owens, Jesse,
48

Oxford University,
83
–84

Parade Magazine
,
120

parents, children's performance and,
34
–35

Parnevik, Jesper,
183

partisan instincts/interests,
44
–48

Patton, General George S.,
33

peace, vs. war,
116

Pearl Harbor attack,
91

pedophile,
101

Percy, Walker,
112
,
116

Perloff, Andrew,
41

persecution, pleasures of,
151
–153

personal happiness,
xvii

personality, as explanation for others' actions,
165
–166

Pharisees,
75

Phelps, Michael,
29

Philippines,
91

Pitts, Leonard, Jr.,
72

plagiarizing,
76
–77

Plato,
27

pleasure/pleasures

of envy,
114

of persecution,
151
–153

of revenge,
86
–92

“The Pleasures of Seeing the Deserving Fail” (Fenton),
185
–187

politics,
schadenfreude
and,
44
–48

Portmann, John,
68
,
70
,
77
,
185

positive psychology movement,
xvii

Potter, Harry
,
30

Powell, Caitlin,
76

Prager, Dennis,
147
–148

preachers, hypocrisy of,
71
–75

Predator Raw
.
See To Catch A Predator

Presidential Debate of October 2012,
53

prestige, desire for,
105

Princeton University,
151

The Principles of Psychology
(James),
51
–52

The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
,
149

Pushkin, Alexander,
125

“Put on a Happy Face” (song),
184

racial comparison.
See Makes Me Wanna Holler
(McCall)

Raisman, Aly,
35

Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer
(St. John),
36

Rattay, Tim,
40

reality television,
xv
,
23
,
93
,
96
,
105
–106,
119
–120,
170
.
See also American Idol
;
Howie Do It

The Red Badge of Courage
(Crane),
16
–17,
192
–193
n
41

Redick, J.J.,
38

Regan, Brian,
5

Reiss, Steven,
105

Rekers, George,
xiv
,
72
,
74

relative advantage/differences,
12
–14

relative performance, on tests,
61
–62

relative standing, biased perception of,
15
f

relativistic thinking/rule,
12

Republicans/Republican Party,
44
–46,
47
f
,
53
,
198
n
28

research/studies

on “culpable control,”
82

on envy,
113
–114

on fandom,
39
,
41
–42

on hypocrisy and deserved misfortune,
76
–77

on inferiority,
133

on “just world” belief,
80

on “minimal group paradigm,”
35
–36

on narcissism,
133
–134

on obedience to authority,
166
–169

on reality TV watching,
105

on relative standing/unequal treatment,
12
–16,
61
–63

on revenge,
89
–91

on self-esteem,
6
–10

resentment, envy transmuted into,
xvii

respect,
64
,
90
,
102
,
164
,
221
–222
n
67

ressentiment
,
132
–133

revenge

desire for,
xiv

high-status and,
105
–108

instinct for,
xvii

pleasures of,
86
–92

restoring self-esteem,
90

rumination and,
90
,
207
n50

revenge plots,
67

Rich, Frank,
xiv

Rickles, Don,
28

righteous pleasure,
79

rival group suffering,
41
–42

The Road Runner
,
54

Rochefoucauld, François de la,
9
,
55

Romney, Mitt,
46
–47,
53
–54

Rooney, Mickey,
93

Roseman, Mark,
155

Rosencrantz
and
Guildenstern
,
92

Rosten, Leo,
67

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques,
5
–6

Rowling, J. K.,
30

The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
(Fitzgerald),
131

rumination, effects of,
207
n
49

Russo, Richard,
138
–139

Ryder Cup matches,
43
–44

sadism,
89
,
92
,
157
,
166
,
171
,
220
n
59,
207
n
54

Salieri, Antonio,
110
,
125
,
134
–138,
181
,
211
n
5

Satan, envy linkage to,
128

“satisfied indignation,”
202
n
19

scapegoating, of Jews,
147
–151.
See also
Jews

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