Schadenfreude (eBook, ePUB)

Understanding Pleasure at the Misfortune of Others
Redaktion: Dijk, Wilco W. van

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

When someone suffers a mishap, a setback or a downfall, we sometimes find ourselves experiencing schadenfreude - an emotion defined as deriving pleasure from another's misfortune. Schadenfreude is a common experience and an emotion which is seemingly inherent to social being. This book offers a comprehensive summary of current theoretical and empirical work on schadenfreude from psychological, philosophical and other scientific perspectives. The chapters explore justice as an underlying motive for schadenfreude, and the role played by social comparison processes and envy in evoking pleasure at the misfortunes of others in interpersonal relations. Schadenfreude is also described as a common phenomenon in intergroup relations. This is a compelling volume on a fascinating subject matter that aims to increase our understanding of the nature of this emotion and the role it plays in social relations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139985086
• Artikelnr.: 52825458

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction to schadenfreude Wilco W. van Dijk and Jaap W. Ouwerkerk;
Part I. Schadenfreude as a Justice-Based Emotion: 2. Morality and
schadenfreude John Portmann; 3. Deservingness and schadenfreude N. T.
Feather; 4. Hypocrisy and schadenfreude Caitlin A. J. Powell; Part II.
Schadenfreude as a Comparison-Based Emotion: 5. The personal comparative
concern in schadenfreude Aaron Ben-Ze'ev; 6. Empirical challenges to
understanding the role of envy in schadenfreude Richard H. Smith, Stephen
M. Thielke and Caitlin A. J. Powell; 7. Malicious envy and schadenfreude
Niels van de Ven; 8. Schadenfreude and consumer behaviour Jill M. Sundie;
9. Striving for positive self-evaluation as a motive for schadenfreude
Wilco W. van Dijk and Jaap W. Ouwerkerk; Part III. Schadenfreude as an
Intergroup Phenomenon: 10. Stereotypes and schadenfreude Mina Cikara and
Susan T. Fiske; 11. Schadenfreude in sports and politics: a social identity
perspective D. Ryan Schurtz, David Combs, Charles Hoogland and Richard H.
Smith; 12. Intergroup rivalry and schadenfreude Jaap W. Ouwerkerk and Wilco
W. van Dijk; 13. Situating schadenfreude in social relations Colin Wayne
Leach, Russell Spears and Anthony S. R. Manstead; Part IV. Schadenfreude
and Related Phenomena: 14. Schadenfreude and laughter F. H. Buckley; 15.
Schadenfreude and the desire for vengeance Elise C. Seip, Mark Rotteveel,
Lotte F. van Dillen and Wilco W. van Dijk; 16. Schadenfreude and pouting
John Portmann; Part V. Schadenfreude in Society, Language, and Literature:
17. Schadenfreude and social life: a comparative perspective on the
expression and regulation of mirth at the expense of others Giselinde
Kuipers; 18. Tracing down schadenfreude in spontaneous interaction:
evidence from corpus linguistics Kurt Feyaerts and Bert Oben; 19. 'Smile
not, however, I venture to repeat': schadenfreude in nineteenth-century
American literature Diederik Oostdijk; 20. Schadenfreude, concluding notes
Agneta H. Fischer.