Envy, Resentment, Schadenfreude, and Sympathy: Reactions to Deserved and Undeserved Achievement and Subsequent Failure

By Norman T. Feather, Rebecca Sherman. 2002

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Social Dominance Orientation, Right-Wing Authoritarianism, Sexism, and Prejudice Toward Women in the Workforce (2008, background): “In contrast, high SDOs may not react negatively toward such occupational role violations, but instead might harbor negative attitudes, such as resentment (see Feather & Sherman, 2002), toward women who succeed in any professional endeavor.”
Understanding the Disparate Behavioral Consequences of LMX Differentiation: The Role of Social Comparison Emotions (2018, background): “…and shows that downward comparisons elicit schadenfreude (Dvash, Gilam, Ben-Ze'ev, Hendler, & Shamay-Tsoory, 2010), especially when negative consequences seem deserved (e.g., Feather & McKee, 2009; Feather & Sherman, 2002; Feather et al., 2013; van Dijk, Ouwerkerk, Goslinga, & Nieweg, 2005).”
Envy and Its Consequences: Why It Is Useful to Distinguish between Benign and Malicious Envy (2016, result): “…research finding that being envious of someone led to more schadenfreude when the other suffered a misfortune (e.g., Smith et al., 1996; Van Dijk, Ouwerkerk, Goslinga, Nieweg, & Gallucci, 2006), while other research found no such relationship (e.g., Feather & Sherman, 2002; Hareli & Weiner, 2002).”
Politics, schadenfreude, and ingroup identification: The sometimes happy thing about a poor economy and death (2009, background): “Brigham, Kelso, Jackson, & Smith, 1997; Feather & Sherman, 2002; Gorman, 2006; Hareli & Weiner, 2002; Leach, Spears, Branscombe, & Doosje, 2003; Smith et al., 1996; van Dijk, Ouwerkerk, Goslinga, & Nieweg, 2005).”
Schadenfreude as a consumption-related emotion: Feeling happiness about the downfall of another's product (2009, methodology): “As previously noted, past studies have produced mixed results about the antecedent role of envy—some have found no link between envy and schadenfreude ( Feather & Sherman, 2002; Hareli & Weiner, 2002), while others have demonstrated envy's role as an antecedent emotion (Brigham et al., 1997; Smith ”
Positive and negative behaviours resulting from brand attachment: The moderating effects of attachment styles (2018, methodology): “Schadenfreude refers to feelings of malicious pleasure based on the misfortune of others (Feather and Sherman, 2002).”
Envy As Pain: Rethinking the Nature of Envy and Its Implications for Employees and Organizations (2012, background): “In contrast, individuals who envy an outgroup member may feel resentful and might even experience Schadenfreude at the failure of the outgroup member (Feather & Sherman, 2002).”
Frustration-based outcomes of entitlement and the influence of supervisor communication (2010, background): “For example, there is some evidence that schadenfreude, a positive emotional state experienced in response to another person’s misfortune, promotes undesirable workplace behaviors (Feather and Sherman, 2002).”
Overlooked but not untouched: How rudeness reduces onlookers’ performance on routine and creative tasks (2009, background): “Feather and Sherman (2002) specifically showed that schadenfreude is positively related to resentment towards successful others and it is performance, Study 2. negatively related to sympathy directed at the misfortune befalling high achieving individuals.”
Experimental research on just-world theory: problems, developments, and future challenges. (2005, background): “There have been other reviews of the just-world literature published after 1980 (see Furnham, 1998, 2003; Furnham & Procter, 1989; Maes, 1998a). Aside from their relative brevity, these reviews differ from the present article in that they have tended to focus on correlational research that uses the ”