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Hareli, Shlomo; Weiner, Bernard

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“…Sorrow correlated highly with resentment (r = .54, p < .001), joy correlated slightly with resentment (r = -.23, p < .003), and there was no correlation between joy and sorrow (r = -.04, ns.). The present scales are very similar in content to the findings of other authors, for example the schadenfreude scale of Hareli and Weiner (2002), which consists of joy, happiness, content and pleasure, and the resentment scale of Feather, McKee, and Bekker (2011) (consisting of resentment, feeling of injustice, and indignance). Our sorrow scale contains similar items as the sympathy scale (sympathy, feeling sorry, pity) of the latter-mentioned authors.…”

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“…Responses to others' successes may be either positive or negative and this valence is As already mentioned, there is a substantial amount of literature on the role of attitudes in the formation of empathic responses (e.g., Lanzetta & Englis, 1989). Hareli and Weiner (2002) found a relation between the intensity of negative emotions toward the other and schadenfreude. Singer and her colleagues (2006) showed that male participants empathized with people toward whom they had warm feelings and experienced schadenfreude for people towards whom their attitude was negative.…”

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“…Based on the content of scales used by other authors studying emotional reactions to others' lots (Feather & Sherman, 2002;Hareli & Weiner, 2002;van Dijk et al, 2005), as well as on our own pilot The recording lasted two minutes and concerned a position of an "assistant with advanced English language skills". The applicant answered the recruiter's questions and at the end was informed that she was going to be offered the job or not.…”

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Joy, Schadenfreude, Sorrow, and Resentment as Responses Restoring Balance in Cognitive Units

Pietraszkiewicz

Wojciszke

2014

Social Psychology

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Based on Heider's (1958) balance theory we hypothesize that emotional responses to other persons' outcomes depend on attitudes towards these persons. Positive attitudes towards others lead to empathic responses to their outcomes-joy after a success and sorrow after a failure. Negative attitudes result in paradoxical responses -negative to a success (resentment) and positive to a failure (schadenfreude). These emotions function as responses restoring balance within cognitive units consisting of the perceiver, other persons and their outcomes. Three studies supported these hypotheses and showed that deservingness considerations play a weaker role in shaping emotional responses of joy and sorrow to others' outcomes when strong interpersonal attitudes are involved. However, deservingness plays an independent role in shaping the emotional response of resentment. Cognitive UnitsHumans are ultra-social beings. Whatever we do, we do it together with other people and so our thoughts and actions are deeply social in nature. The same is true of emotions, which in a broad sense are all social, though some of them are also social in a narrower sense as responses to other people and their outcomes. The present work is devoted to others' successes and failures as antecedents of global and specific affective responses.Basing on Heider (1958), we develop a balancing model of emotional responses to others' successes and failures and we review the deservingness model which is now the dominating account for these responses. We present two studies aimed at testing the balancing model and resolving discrepancies between the balancing and deservingness accounts of emotional responses to others' outcomes. Responses to Successes of Others: Joy and ResentmentIn individualistic societies, self-centered values are important (Oyserman & Lee, 2008) and people strive for successes in a variety of domains. Own success gives pleasure and a boost in self-esteem. Others' successes also lead to joy and pride, especially when the perceivers do not strive to enhance their own results. This way, others' successes are void of threat and enable increases in the perceivers' self-esteem due to basking in reflected glory (Tesser, 1988). However, they may also lead to resentment and envy. Envy is "an unpleasant, often painful emotion characterized by feelings of inferiority, hostility, and resentment caused by an awareness of a desired attribute enjoyed by another person or group" (Smith & Kim, 2007, p. 46). Resentment is a bitter feeling following successes of others who are perceived as not deserving their lot (Feather & Sherman, 2002). Both emotions are usually correlated and emerge in similar conditions of others' successes. In our reading, resentment and schadenfreude are emotional responses to different situations -others' successes or failures respectively. A stable link between the two emotions cannot be predicted unless they involve a psychological similarity, for example, the perceived others are disliked by the perceiver. Deservingness ...

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Studymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Joy, Schadenfreude, Sorrow, and Resentment as Responses Restoring Balance in Cognitive Units

Pietraszkiewicz

Wojciszke

2014

Social Psychology

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“…'General or something' (Table 6) was the largest category for feeling envious on someone, maybe showing the same vague discomfort as among the Swedish respondents. Personal development became an object and reason of envy, congruent with the assumption made by Hareli and Weiner (2002) which stated that there is a tendency to dislike others' developments and achievements. Feather (1994) also added that individuals who can achieve and develop themselves tend to be disliked if they lack positive social relations and act in a pompous and overconfident way.…”

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“…To be happy when people 'get what they deserve' is not necessarily including ill will or even resentment. Feather and Sherman (2002), Hareli and Weiner (2002) and Leach and Spears (2008) failed to find a relation between envy and schadenfreude. Other researchers found a positive relation between the two concepts (e.g., Brigham et al 1997;van Dijk et al, 2006).…”

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Why you and not me? Expressions of envy in Sweden and Indonesia

Adrianson¹,

Ramdhani²

2014

IJRSP

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The purpose of the present study was to describe experience of envy in two different cultures, Indonesia and Sweden. Envy is a feeling that most people have experienced and mostly regards as shameful. The concept relates to a variety of feeling that shows its complexity. The result shows that envy had a wider meaning in the Indonesian language than in Swedish, and consisted of emotional words that were rare among the Swedish respondents. The Swedish respondents' descriptions were, with few exceptions, connected to a malicious (ill will) meaning while it was obvious that the Javanese respondents used also the concept of benign envy (without ill will). Jealousy and envy seemed to overlap each other more in Bahasa Indonesia than in the Swedish use of the words. The latter had a distinct word for schadenfreude that was lacking in Bahasa Indonesia. For the Swedish respondents, wanting to have what another person possesses was a central element of envy, for example prosperity or competence. The Javanese respondents stressed relationships, achievements and personal characteristics' as main causes for envy. Both the Swedish and Javanese respondents reported that a person who they knew and with whom they had an established relationship, such as a friend or a fellow student, had envied them and the causes for this were about the same as their own.

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Effects of social identity and schadenfreude on attitude toward brand sponsoring an instant replay review: The moderating role of rivalry and suspense

Kim

2018

J of Consumer Behaviour

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Used during sport games to guard against incorrect calls by referees, instant replay review has provided sponsoring brands an additional advertising opportunity. Although instant replay video (IRV) encourages sport spectators to stay focused on the screen, no study has examined how viewer perception of and attitude toward an ad or brand tied to IRV are formed or how such formations might vary in different circumstances. Applying social identity theory and the concept of schadenfreude (i.e., the experience of joy when observing another's misfortune), the current study examined sport fan perceptions of an IRV‐sponsoring ad and its sponsoring brand. Results from an experiment using a 2 (rivalry level: high vs. low) × 2 (suspense level: high vs. low) between‐subjects design revealed that the positive emotion induced by a negative instant replay outcome for the opposing team (i.e., schadenfreude) led to positive attitude toward the ad (Aad‐IRV) and the sponsoring brand (Ab‐IRV). Importantly, the results indicate that the effects of schadenfreude on Aad‐IRV were greater when the level of rivalry was higher. Participants exposed to the high rivalry game condition showed a stronger relationship between schadenfreude and Aad‐IRV than the low rivalry game group. In addition, when the participants felt high suspense during the game, the schadenfreude resulting from a negative outcome of the rivalry team produced a significantly positive effect on Aad‐IRV. However, no such schadenfreude effect was observed in the low suspense situations. Theoretical and managerial implications are discussed.

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Cited by 149 publications

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Joy, Schadenfreude, Sorrow, and Resentment as Responses Restoring Balance in Cognitive Units

Joy, Schadenfreude, Sorrow, and Resentment as Responses Restoring Balance in Cognitive Units

Why you and not me? Expressions of envy in Sweden and Indonesia

Effects of social identity and schadenfreude on attitude toward brand sponsoring an instant replay review: The moderating role of rivalry and suspense

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