Feeling joy in other people’s misery doesn’t have to be an inevitable outcome of the social comparison process. swhitbo explains why—and how to have more empathy.
It may seem normal, but not nice, to experience at least some pleasure when misfortune befalls a rival.
The idea that you should feel badly when someone else encounters a loss or other form of misfortune is hammered into most people’s sense of moral responsibility. Little children may shout with joy when they win a family board game, but this ignoble reaction ordinarily becomes less and less acceptable in anyone over the age of 8 or 9. As adults, you may still experience this sense of delight when you’ve vanquished your opponents, but you know that you have to hold back on expressing it openly.
to the “contrastive” or unempathetic. Building a model of FOE’s, the German authors explore the factors determining whether people experience the assimilative or contrastive emotions to the fortunes and misfortunes of others, shortened as “fortunes.”Borrowing from a 2000 book chapter by University of Kentucky’s Richard Smith , the German authors note that social comparisons are at the heart of people’s emotional responses to other people’s fortunes.
To test their theoretical model, the U. Luneburg team devised a series of nine online experiments that simulated a lottery in which participants could compare their wins and losses with ostensible opponents. The experimenters varied the exact conditions of the lottery, but the basic premise was that participants either lost, gained, or came out equal in terms of the lottery’s outcome. In each case, the participants rated their emotional reactions along the scales of none to much .
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