Envy, resentment, schadenfreude, and sympathy: Reactions to deserved and undeserved achievement and subsequent failure

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 953-961

  Feather, N T ^a   Sherman, Rebecca ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 0141740725     PISSN: 01461672     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/014616720202800708     Document Type: Article

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