Tag: malice
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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…