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stereotypes, [>]–[>]

of blacks, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

of gay people, [>]

of Jews, [>]–[>]

sterilization, [>], [>]

Stevenson, Harold, [>]–[>]

Stewart, Jon, [>]

Stigler, James, [>]–[>]

Stumbling on Happiness (Gilbert), [>]

Sudan, tooth extraction in children, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

Suffolk County (New York) Police Department, [>]

Sullivan, Thomas P., [>] (n.48)

Supreme Court, [>], [>]–[>]

Tajfel, Henri, [>]–[>]

Tangney, June, [>]

Tavris, Carol, [>]–[>]

tax evasion, [>]

terrorism, [>], [>]–[>]

testilying, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

testimonials, [>]

testimony

of children, [>]–[>]

eyewitness, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

tetanus, tooth extraction and, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

Tetlock, Philip, [>]

thimerisol, in vaccinations, [>]–[>] (n.19)

Third Reich, [>]

Thurber, James, [>]–[>]

Tiefer, Leonore, [>]–[>]

Time, [>]

Today show (TV program), [>]–[>]

tooth extraction, in Sudan, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

totalitarian ego (Greenwald), [>]

traffic school, [>]

Trauma and Recovery (Herman), [>]

trauma research and treatment, [>]–[>]

Treadway, Joshua, [>]–[>]

Treaty of Versailles, [>]

Trebek, Alex, [>]

Trump, Donald, [>]

Truth and Reconciliation Commission (South Africa), [>]–[>]

truth serum (sodium amytal), [>]–[>], [>]

Tuchman, Barbara, [>]

Tuite, Richard, [>]–[>], [>]

tunnel vision, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

Turner, Chester, [>] (n.40)

Tutu, Desmond, [>]

Tversky, Barbara, [>]

unconscious processes, [>], [>]

U.S. Pharmaceutical Group, [>] Unspeakable Acts, Ordinary People (Conroy), [>]

Urban II, Pope, [>]

us-versus-them mentality, [>]–[>]

vaccinations

autism and, [>]–[>], [>]–[>] (n.19)

mercury and, [>]–[>] (n.19)

Van der Kolk, Bessel, [>]–[>]

Vanes, Thomas, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

venting, [>]–[>]

victim narrative, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

degree of helplessness, [>]–[>]

gulf between perpetrator and, [>]–[>], [>]

obedience experiments of Milgram and, [>]–[>], [>]

perpetrators of evil and, [>]–[>]

reconciliation and, [>]–[>]

strategies and, [>]–[>]

Vidal, Gore, [>]–[>]

videotaping of interviews, [>]–[>], [>]

Vietnam War, [>], [>], [>], [>]

Vioxx, [>]

virtuous circle, [>]–[>]

Voice Stress Analyzer, [>], [>]–[>], [>] (n.10)

Wakefield, Andrew, [>]–[>]

war. See also Iraq

ethnocentrism and, [>]

sabotage and, [>]–[>]

in Vietnam, [>], [>], [>], [>]

World War I, [>]

World War II, [>]

Warden, Rob, [>]

Watergate scandal, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>] (n.2)

Watson, Tom, Sr., [>]

Wee Care Nursery (New Jersey), [>]–[>]

Westen, Drew, [>]

Westmoreland, William, [>]

West Wing, The (TV program), [>]

Wharton School, [>]

Wilkomirski, Binjamin, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>] (n.18)

Will, George, [>]

Winfrey, Oprah, [>]–[>], [>]

Wise, Kharey, [>]–[>] (n.2), [>] (n.34)–[>]

women. See also childhood sexual abuse

careers and, [>], [>]–[>]

childbed fever prevention, [>], [>]

sexism and, [>]–[>], [>] (n.31)

Wonderful O, The (Thurber), [>]–[>]

Woo-Suk, Hwang, [>]

work

careers for women, [>], [>]–[>]

ethnocentrism and, [>]

panic attacks and, [>]–[>]

World War I, Treaty of Versailles and, [>]

World War II, Japanese American incarceration camps, [>]

Wyeth-Ayerst Pharmaceutical, [>]

Yankelovich, Daniel, [>]

Yeats, John Butler, [>]–[>]

Yeats, William Butler, [>]–[>]

Zionism, [>]

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Table of Contents

Title

Copyright

Contents

Introduction

Knaves, Fools, Villains, and Hypocrites: How Do They Live with Themselves?

Chapter 1

Cognitive Dissonance: The Engine of Self-justification

Believing Is Seeing

Ingrid's Choice, Nick's Mercedes, and Elliot's Canoe

Spirals of Violence—and Virtue

The Pyramid of Choice

Chapter 2

Pride and Prejudice ... and Other Blind Spots

The Road to St. Andrews

The Gift that Keeps on Giving

A Slip of the Brain

Chapter 3

Memory, the Self-justifying Historian

The Biases of Memory