Tag: envy

  • What I’ve learned researching the emotion of envy

    My empirical work has mostly focused on the emotion of envy. I have a lot of data that I need to publish. I’ve been frozen lately by a sort of methodological crisis and metamorphosis. I started thinking about a number of validity issues after working on the BBS paper, and I couldn’t move forward with…

  • Envy, social comparison, non-envy

    My empirical work focuses on envy, particularly it’s benign and malicious forms. I was inspired by van de Ven, Zeelenberg, and Pieters (2009). The Dutch language has separate words for benign and malicious envy, which helped frame their research. Malicious envy: hostility toward the target, appraisal that the disparity is unfair, low confidence in one’s…