From: CNN
Why do we feel schadenfreude?
August 20, 2013
CNN:
When other people suffer misfortunes, we feel sorry for them.
Or do we?
More than we probably want to admit, we sometimes are secretly pleased.
Does a Red Sox fan feel happy to see a Yankee fan miserable over a humiliating loss? Would a Democrat ever tire of watching replays of Mitt Romney’s Etch A Sketch moments? Do you find yourself consuming the tabloid news, riveted by coverage of disasters in the gossip columns?
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Social neuroscientists Mina Cikara, Matthew Botvinick, and Susan Fiske in a study published in Psychological Science provided more corroborating evidence for schadenfreude using sports fans rather than political junkies.
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