When envy leads to schadenfreude

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1007-1025

  van de Ven, Niels ^a   Hoogland, Charles E ^b   Smith, Richard H ^b   van Dijk, Wilco W ^c   Breugelmans, Seger M ^a,d   Zeelenberg, Marcel ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d NATIONAL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY HIGHER SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Benign envy; Deservedness; Envy; Malicious envy; Schadenfreude; Social comparison

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGER; ARTICLE; BENIGN ENVY; DESERVEDNESS; DISLIKE; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFERIORITY; MALE; MALICIOUS ENVY; NETHERLANDS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESENTMENT; SCHADENFREUDE; UNITED STATES; ADOLESCENT; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84932197610     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2014.961903     Document Type: Article

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