“You’re just envious”: Inferring benign and malicious envy from facial expressions and contextual information.

Abstract

We have no known conflicts of interest. We report all studies we ever conducted in this line of research. We report how we determined our sample size, all data exclusions (if any), all manipulations, and all measures in the study. The anonymized data, analysis scripts, and materials are available on the Open Science Framework (https://osf.io/n9uvj/). All studies were preregistered (see https://aspredicted.org/3tq2y.pdf, https://aspredicted.org/i9vw6.pdf, https://aspredicted.org/ej26f.pdf). The research reported in this article was supported by grants from the German Research foundation (DFG) awarded to Jens Lange (LA 4029/1-1, LA 4029/2-1). We thank the members of the Department of Social Psychology at the University of Amsterdam for valuable feedback. We also thank Sami Paul Chakkour, Niklas Koch, Franziska Thomiczny, and Johanna Woitzel for serving as actors in Study 3.

How the Big Five personality traits related to aggression from perspectives of the benign and malicious envy

“…Meanwhile, the aim of the malicious envy is to put down the envied person and remove them from their superior position [26,27,33]. Benign envy is also a frustrating experience, but its motivation is to improve oneself [23,30,34]. Therefore, benign envy has a positive side [35,36].…”