"So you wanna be a pop star?": Schadenfreude following another's misfortune on TV

Basic and Applied Social Psychology

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 168-174

  van Dijk, Wilco W ^a   Ouwerkerk, Jaap W ^b   van Koningsbruggen, Guido M ^c   Wesseling, Yoka M ^b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 84859648388     PISSN: 01973533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01973533.2012.656006     Document Type: Article

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