Multiple versus single immoral acts: an immoral person evokes more schadenfreude than an immoral action

Berndsen, Mariëtte; Tiggemann, Marika

doi:10.1007/s11031-020-09843-5

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“…For example, research shows that some people experienced schadenfreude (i.e., pleasure over another’s misery), such as when disliked dissenters contracted COVID-19 (Myrick & Chen, 2021) or those spurning the vaccine passed away (Baker-Jordan, 2021). Contempt for others based on a judgment of their immoral actions is a known predictor of schadenfreude (Berndsen & Tiggemann, 2020), and feeling schadenfreude predicts decreased willingness to engage in prevention behaviors, including COVID-19 prevention (Myrick & Chen, 2021). As such, future work may examine the potential interplay of schadenfreude and stigma associated with following (or not) public health recommendations.…”

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Longitudinal study of an emerging COVID-19 stigma: Media exposure, danger appraisal, and stress.

Smith¹,

Zhu²,

Martin³

et al. 2023

Stigma and Health

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Media coverage of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has played a critical role throughout the pandemic: sharing news about the novel virus, policies and practices to mitigate it, and the race to create and distribute vaccines. The media coverage, however, has been critiqued as stigmatizing. Although this critique is not new, there is limited understanding of how and why new stigmas emerge from exposure to media coverage. Drawing upon the model of stigma communication (Smith et al., 2019) and the attribution model of stigma (Corrigan et al., 2003), we investigated a novel model of stigma emergence that delineates two kinds of longitudinal processes: (a) a message-effects process, in which exposure to mediated messages about COVID-19 leads to public stigma through danger appraisal and (b) a coping process in which stress and rumination shape later perceptions of public stigma. To test the model, we tracked an emerging COVID-19 stigma with a two-wave survey of a prospective, longitudinal cohort living in one county in a mid-Atlantic state (N = 883). The results supported this model. The longitudinal processes of stigma emergence and implications for COVID-19 stigma are discussed.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Longitudinal study of an emerging COVID-19 stigma: Media exposure, danger appraisal, and stress.

Smith¹,

Zhu²,

Martin³

et al. 2023

Stigma and Health

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“…Third, the contribution of this study to the schadenfreude literature relates to the moral qualities of those who experience schadenfreude. Previous research has mostly focused on the moral qualities of the person experiencing the misfortune and has shown that misfortune occurring to the individual perceived as immoral elicits schadenfreude (Berndsen & Tiggemann, 2020; Brambilla & Riva, 2017). However, previous research has not tested the effect of the schadenfroh's ethical and moral training in triggering schadenfreude.…”

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“…In studies, schadenfreude has been measured extensively using scenarios (Berndsen & Tiggemann, 2020; James et al, 2014). In the present study, schadenfreude was measured using two hypothetical scenarios (e.g., one academic and one social context).…”

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“…The scenarios used in this study did not contain any information about the moral qualities of people who experienced misfortune. Previous research has attributed immoral traits to those who experience misfortune (Berndsen & Tiggemann, 2020; Feather & McKee, 2014), but did not take into account the ethics and moral training of the schadenfroh. One might wonder whether schadenfreude is evoked in morally educated people when immoral traits are ascribed to those experiencing misfortune.…”

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The effect of ethics and moral education on the levels of schadenfreude experienced by students

Cerit

2023

Int J Psychol

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Schadenfreude has attracted attention in recent studies. Although the antecedents and consequences of schadenfreude have been investigated, how it can be prevented has not been explored. This article examines the effect of ethics and moral education on the levels of schadenfreude experienced by students. The nonequivalent pretest‐posttest control group model, a quasi‐experimental design, was used in this study. Both the experimental and control groups consisted of 55 students. Data were collected using two hypothetical scenarios (one academic vs. one social context). The results of this study revealed that ethics and moral education had a significant negative effect on schadenfreude. This study suggests that people's ethics and moral education is an important predictor of schadenfreude.

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“…However, Sadism does not fit into any of the pre-existing perspectives of schadenfreude. Within the body of scientific literature, there are three broad perspectives of why and when schadenfreude occurs: justice (e.g., Berndsen & Tiggemann, 2020), envy (e.g., Van Dijk et al, 2015, and group identity (e.g., . Although some have found that Sadism is linked to malicious envy (e.g., Dinic & Brankovic, 2022) and dominance is a part of Sadism (e.g., Plouffe et al, 2017), the Sadistic enjoyment of harm is not contingent on envying the target, nor is the ultimate goal of the harm dominance over another-but rather the pure hedonism gained through aggression.…”

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Sadism is a Lower-Order Facet of Schadenfreude

Parton

Chester²

2022

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Sadism represents a predisposition towards enjoying the suffering that we cause others. However, this conceptualization of Sadism closely abuts that of schadenfreude—the tendency to find pleasure in others’ suffering. The relationship between trait Sadism and trait schadenfreude has gone understudied. Using latent construct modeling with a cross-sectional and diverse sample of 322 undergraduate participants, we found that the bi-factor model of Sadism and schadenfreude that best fit the data articulated Sadism as a sub-facet of schadenfreude. Sadism was more strongly related to physical aggressiveness, anger, and antagonism than schadenfreude, suggesting a distinct nomological profile. Future research should seek to identify the mechanisms that translate a passive, schadenfreudic disposition into actual acts of Sadistic aggression.

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Multiple versus single immoral acts: an immoral person evokes more schadenfreude than an immoral action

Cited by 11 publications

References 57 publications

Longitudinal study of an emerging COVID-19 stigma: Media exposure, danger appraisal, and stress.

Longitudinal study of an emerging COVID-19 stigma: Media exposure, danger appraisal, and stress.

The effect of ethics and moral education on the levels of schadenfreude experienced by students

Sadism is a Lower-Order Facet of Schadenfreude

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