2009
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcps.2009.02.015
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Schadenfreudeas a consumption‐related emotion: Feeling happiness about the downfall of another's product

Abstract: Emotional antecedents of schadenfreude-joy experienced when observing another's downfall-were investigated in a status consumption context. Across 3 studies, status product failure produced schadenfreude and led to intentions to spread negative word-of-mouth (studies 1, 2), and increased negative affect and overall negative attitudes toward the status brand (study 3). Furthermore, studies 1 and 2 suggest that envy (particularly of social attention) can lead to schadenfreude by transmuting into hostile emotions… Show more

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“…But envy is a gnawing bitterness that is only relieved if the person envied is brought low. Ever since Plato there has been a tradition connecting envy to Schadenfreude, the pleasure taken from another's misfortune Sundie et al 2009). Did the neighbor who just got an impressive new car get into a fender-bender?…”
Section: Envy and Related Concepts In Traditional Viewsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…But envy is a gnawing bitterness that is only relieved if the person envied is brought low. Ever since Plato there has been a tradition connecting envy to Schadenfreude, the pleasure taken from another's misfortune Sundie et al 2009). Did the neighbor who just got an impressive new car get into a fender-bender?…”
Section: Envy and Related Concepts In Traditional Viewsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Many emotion theorists suggest that such events set off a cascade of fast-and slow-acting processes of appraisal (Lazarus, 1991). For example, the initial experience of envy often is followed by further appraisals of unfairness (i.e., as someone else has the object of envy), resulting in a transmutation into hostility (Sundie, Ward, Beal, Chin, & Geiger-Oneto, 2009). For example, the initial experience of envy often is followed by further appraisals of unfairness (i.e., as someone else has the object of envy), resulting in a transmutation into hostility (Sundie, Ward, Beal, Chin, & Geiger-Oneto, 2009).…”
Section: Appraisal Strategiesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…A revisão da literatura mostra que o schadenfreude tem consequências comportamentais, como, por exemplo, o aumento do engajamento em boca a boca negativo em relação à falha do produto observada (SUNDIE et al, 2009) H4a: A conexão pessoal com a marca modera a relação entre a pena e o boca a boca positivo (neutro). representando alta conexão com a marca Apple.…”
Section: Formulação Das Hipótesesunclassified
“…Isso ocorre, por exemplo, quando um indivíduo se alegra ao ver outro com o carro, desejado pelo observador, quebrado no acostamento de uma rodovia após o observado ter ostentado possuir o carro (SUNDIE et al, 2009). …”
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