Integrating multiple perspectives on schadenfreude: The role of deservingness and emotions

Motivation and Emotion

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 574-585

  Feather, N T ^a   Wenzel, Michael ^a   McKee, Ian R ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Deservingness; Envy; Group membership; Pain of inferiority; Resentment; Schadenfreude; Self esteem

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881231828     PISSN: 01467239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11031-012-9331-4     Document Type: Article

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