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Notes (additional) on Schadenfreude – Our structuring of the Interpersonal Domain
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Liaison Officer (C-V)
It is emphasized that the appeal to this response is disabling, it negatively affects the stability of the target more so while we can control the extent, by increasing the magnitude of the provoking stimulus
The New Mind War in its entirety, but for example the Sheffield Case Study; who we shine it on (who they are, where they are, what they say regarding themselves), is very deliberate, the response – shadenfreude, intended as a consequence – that is, from the target audience. With certain targets the response is an inevitable consequence, what we do with it, interesting. Shadenfreude response is a perfect strategy among others in our arsenal, for rousing instability among competitors.
The developmental origins and mechanisms behind social comparison based emotions are not well understood, despite recent progress. Social comparison based emotions involve two (or more) person situations in which one’s emotions depends on the other’s state. The process of social comparison may trigger prosocial emotions such as empathy and compassion to the distress of others but also >> competitive emotions such as malicious joy or schadenfreude when facing others misfortune. <<
Schadenfreude is a relatively unstudied emotion and involves experiencing pleasure when another person faces an unfavourable event. Schadenfreude is related to other competitive social comparison based emotions such as envy and resentment and it frequently arises in situations in which the target deserves the misfortune. Interestingly, while there is strong evidence for biological, evolutionary and developmental roots of prosocial empathically motivated helping behaviours, the evolutionary and developmental origins of schadenfreude are unknown.
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Admiration, pride, and respect >> positive goals attained
Anger, indignation and contempt >> negative goals attained
Pride and respect are more often experienced in achievement contexts. It is evident that effort plays a crucial role in this context and events characterised by high effort elicit especially strong feelings of pride and respect. In contrast, admiration is an emotion more closely related to cases in which another person’s outstanding personality or ability is esteemed.
Admiration and respect, in contrast to pride, are typically related to achievements or abilities the observer does not have but would like to have. Pride is typically experienced in close relationships especially when the observer is involved in the reported situation. In contrast, admiration and respect are more frequently experienced with regard to more distant persons.
Indignation and contempt are predominant in situations with distant interaction partners, whereas anger is elicited mainly in close relationships.
Anger is elicited when expectations related to the interaction partner are not met, or when personal goals are blocked.
Indignation and contempt are especially strong when a morally wrong behaviour is observed repeatedly. For indignation, it is often the case that a certain code of conduct is transgressed, whereas contempt is typically elicited vis-à-vis bad characteristics or traits of another person.
SCHADENFREUDE – negative attitude of the observer can lead to a variety of feelings; anger, rage, embarrassment, satisfaction……. The pleasure in schadenfreude is due to the fact that the observer engages in a self-other comparison. That observers experiencing schadenfreude typically recognise that the target of schadenfreude suffers due to misfortune. >> A situation involving schadenfreude often seems to provide an opportunity for a more favourable self-view and self enhancement. <<
Those experiencing schadenfreude typically attempt to hide the emotion, and are aware of the fact that the joy taken in the misfortune of another person is hurtful.
However, as stated, it is emphasised that the appeal to this response is disabling, it negatively affects the stability of the target ***, more so while we can control the extent, by increasing the magnitude of the provoking stimulus.
*** To what effect, extent and where within a target system – how we assess the response is useful scientifically to present. Why are negative emotions useful?
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Notes (additional) on Schadenfreude – Our structuring of the Interpersonal Domain
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Adversitate. Custodi. Per Verum