Dispositional Envy Revisited: Unraveling the Motivational Dynamics of Benign and Malicious Envy

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 284-294

  Lange, Jens ^a   Crusius, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

benign envy; envy; malicious envy; social comparison; social emotion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ATTITUDE; FEMALE; HUMANS; JEALOUSY; MALE; MOTIVATION; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ATTITUDE; FEMALE; HUMANS; JEALOUSY; MALE; MOTIVATION; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84920986054     PISSN: 01461672     EISSN: 15527433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146167214564959     Document Type: Article

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