Leveling up and down: the experiences of benign and malicious envy.

By N. van de Ven, M. Zeelenberg, Rik Pieters. Emotion, 2009

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Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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I Like What She’s #Endorsing: The Impact of Female Social Media Influencers’ Perceived Sincerity, Consumer Envy, and Product Type (2020, background): “Benign envy is associated with more favorable thoughts about the perceived superior person and greater interest and desire for the envied person’s possession (van de Ven, Zeelenberg, and Pieters 2009).”
The interplay between Facebook use, social comparison, envy, and depression (2016, background): “Furthermore, recent evidence [51,52] shows that unflattering social comparisons can elicit two distinct forms of envy.”
Envy and Its Consequences: Why It Is Useful to Distinguish between Benign and Malicious Envy (2016, background): “Van de Ven et al. (2009) also found that malicious envy differed from resentment, with resentment being purely focused on the other person, while malicious envy had a dual focus on both the other and oneself (see also Smith, 2000).”
Envy As Pain: Rethinking the Nature of Envy and Its Implications for Employees and Organizations (2012, background): “That is, malicious envy is aligned with negative outcomes alone and benign envy with positive outcomes (van de Ven et al., 2009).”
Understanding Relationship Marketing and Loyalty Program Effectiveness in Global Markets (2015, positive): “Envy motivates customers to improve their position by seeking the same benefits granted to others (Van de Ven, Zeelenberg, and Pieters 2009).”
Envy: An Adversarial Review and Comparison of Two Competing Views (2019, methodology): “For example, Van de Ven et al. (2009) found that more than half of both benign and malicious envy episodes that participants recalled involved low perceived control, whereas Lange, Crusius, and Hagemeyer (2016, Study 4) found that perceived control positively predicted both benign and malicious…”
On boredom: Lack of challenge and meaning as distinct boredom experiences (2011, background): “This approach has proven to be valuable in examining the distinctive elements of emotions (see also Van de Ven et al. 2009 ) and the relatively broad focus is also consistent with the important early work on boredom by Leary et al. (1986), who stress that the experience of boredom involves an array”
The Evil Queen's Dilemma: Linking Narcissistic Admiration and Rivalry to Benign and Malicious Envy (2016, background): “Afterwards, participants rated their agreement with several items adapted from previous research on benign and malicious envy5 (Crusius & Lange, 2014; Lange & Crusius, 2015a, 2015b; Van de Ven et al., 2009).”