Leveling Up and Down: The Experiences of Benign and Malicious Envy

Emotion

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 419-429

  van de Ven, Niels ^a   Zeelenberg, Marcel ^a   Pieters, Rik ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

cross cultural; emotion; envy; experiential content

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BENIGN ENVY; CLASSIFICATION; CONTENT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; EMOTION; ENVY; EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MALICIOUS ENVY; MOTIVATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; THEORY;

EMOTIONS; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; JEALOUSY; MOTIVATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 66949125051     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0015669     Document Type: Article

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