Schadenfreude deconstructed and reconstructed: A tripartite motivational model

Wang, Shensheng; Lilienfeld, Scott O.; Rochat, Philippe

doi:10.1016/j.newideapsych.2018.09.002

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“…Another typology, obtained top down from the study of pre-existing literature, was proposed by Wang et al (2019) who distinguish three types of Schadenfreude:…”

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confidence: 99%

Schadenfreude: Malicious Joy in Social Media Interactions

2020

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The paper presents a model of Schadenfreude, pleasure at another’s misfortune, resulting in a typology of cases of this emotion. Four types are singled out: Compensation, Identification, Aversion, and Injustice Schadenfreude. The typology is first tested on a corpus of 472 comments drawn from three social media, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Then a specific corpus of comments is collected and analyzed concerning a specific case of Injustice Schadenfreude, the posts concerning Brexit, United Kingdom leaving the European Union. From the analysis, it emerges that spatial or factual closeness does not look necessary to feel Schadenfreude. Finally, a lexicometric automatic analysis is conducted on the general corpus of Italian comments collected using several hashtags and enriched by comments about the fire of Notre Dame, showing how even complex emotions like Schadenfreude can be automatically extracted from social media.

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“…Another typology, obtained top down from the study of pre-existing literature, was proposed by Wang et al (2019) who distinguish three types of Schadenfreude:…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Schadenfreude: Malicious Joy in Social Media Interactions

2020

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“…We expected adolescents to talk about a range of misfortunes and predicted that they would focus on domains of failure and punishment due to the developmental salience of competition and fairness (Pomerantz, Ruble, Frey, & Greulich, 1995;Smith & Warneken, 2016). Next, replicating previous findings, we hypothesized that themes of deservingness and personal gain would be reflected in adolescents' reasoning (Wang et al, 2019). Then, we investigated trends in how themes of misfortunes and reasons varied by target(liked peer, disliked peer, teacher, and parent).…”

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“…Reasoning. Two reasons or motivations have been found to underly schadenfreude: deservingness and personal gain (see Wang, Lilienfeld, & Rochat, 2019). Misfortunes that are perceived to be deserved elicit feelings of schadenfreude, in part, because these misfortunes satisfy the observer's belief in immanent justice and a just world-the idea that everyone ultimately gets what they deserve (van Dijk, Ouwerkerk, Goslinga, & Nieweg, 2005).…”

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Adolescents’ Narratives of Schadenfreude

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Ali

Malti

2020

J of Research on Adolesc

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This study explored the experiential determinants of schadenfreude, how schadenfreude changes as a function of relationship, and how recollections of schadenfreude may vary by age. Using a narrative approach, 12‐ and 15‐year‐olds (N = 60) described times they felt schadenfreude toward various peers and adults. We coded their responses to extract information regarding preceding misfortunes and underlying reasons for schadenfreude. We found that adolescents' schadenfreude often involved another’s physical harm and failure, and was rooted in reasons of deservingness and personal gain. There were unique trends in the types of misfortunes and reasons mentioned toward each target of interest. Finally, deservingness reasoning was prominent within 15‐year‐olds’ schadenfreude experiences. The findings are discussed in relation to adolescents’ emotional experiences in conflict situations.

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“…More specifically, researchers (e.g., Fiori and Vesely-Maillefer 2018;Tamir and Bigman 2018;Israelashvili, Sauter, and Fischer, 2019) have acknowledged the individuals' efficacy in detecting other people's emotions, and then employing the proper behavior to adapt to them. Social envy and schadenfreude theories (e.g., Wang, Lilienfeld, and Philippe 2019;van de Ven and Zeelenberg 2020) state that people could predict social schadenfreude for their failure and be envious of their success. With this knowledge, they can use the proper behavior, if necessary, to be envied or avoid being viewed as a loser.…”

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How Proponents and Opponents Influence Achievement Motivation: The Role of the Anticipated Emotions of Other People

Simamora

2021

GADJAH MADA INT. J. BUS.

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There are countless studies about the influence of other people’s emotions on individuals' behavior. However, the influence of proponents' and opponents' future emotions on achievement motivation remains unclear. This study aims to fill this gap. Therefore, departing from the emotional intelligence theory, the author materializes the anticipated emotions of other people concept and tests it using a static group experimental design with success and failure scenarios, involving 203 participants chosen judgmentally. When reminded of the proponents' joyfulness caused by their success, the Mann-Whitney U test with normal approximation, supported by the Monte Carlo estimation, shows that the mastery-avoidance, performance-approach, and performance-avoidance goals of the experimental group are enhanced. Whereas, when reminded that they would be envied and make the opponents feel distressed, the performance-approach goals are improved. In the failure scenario, when the participants were directed to the proponents' distress, as a response to their failure, the four components of the achievement goals are increased: mastery-approach, mastery-avoidance, performance-approach, and performance-avoidance. However, the opponents' joyfulness, anticipated as a malicious schadenfreude to the participants' failure, is only successful in stimulating the performance-avoidance goals. A Bayesian estimate with 5,000 times bootstrapping reveals that self-efficacy mediates the influence of the proponents' anticipated joyfulness on the mastery-approach fully, and on the performance-approach goals in a complementary way. Complementary mediation is also apparent in the impact of the proponents' distress on the mastery-approach and mastery-avoidance goals. Above all, love for the proponents is more potent than hatred from social environments for increasing the achievement motivation. Further research is encouraged to replicate this study with different social behavior.

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Schadenfreude deconstructed and reconstructed: A tripartite motivational model

Cited by 39 publications

References 110 publications

Schadenfreude: Malicious Joy in Social Media Interactions

Schadenfreude: Malicious Joy in Social Media Interactions

Adolescents’ Narratives of Schadenfreude

How Proponents and Opponents Influence Achievement Motivation: The Role of the Anticipated Emotions of Other People

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