Joy, schadenfreude, sorrow, and resentment as responses restoring balance in cognitive units

Social Psychology

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 274-285

  Pietraszkiewicz, Agnieszka ^a   Wojciszke, Bogdan ^a  

^a SWPS UNIVERSITY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES   (Poland)

Author keywords

Balance; Deservingness; Joy; Resentment; Schadenfreude; Sorrow

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922224729     PISSN: 18649335     EISSN: 21512590     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1864-9335/a000174     Document Type: Review

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