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The joy of pain schadenfreude and the dark side of human nature

Few people will easily admit to taking pleasure in the misfortunes of others. But who doesn't enjoy it when an arrogant but untalented contestant is humiliated on American Idol, or when the embarrassing vice of a self-righteous politician is exposed, or even when an envied friend suffers a small setback? The truth is that joy in someone else's pain-known by the German word schadenfreude--permeates our society. In The Joy of Pain, psychologist Richard Smith, one of the world's foremost authorities on envy and shame, sheds much light on a feeling we dare not admit. Smith argues that schadenfreud.

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  • "Argues that schadenfreude is a normal human emotion, looking at its roots in feelings of justice, positive sense of self, and concern with inferiority."
  • ""A master at exploring humanity's darker instincts, Smith crafts ingenious experiments to tease out the feelings we won't admit to having, and explains the adaptive reasons for them. We wouldn't be able to survive without these shameful traits, but, according to Smith, it's a slippery slope--schadenfreude and empathy are opposite poles of human emotion, and we must be careful which way we lean. This is an accessible, fun, schadenfruedean romp through pop culture (a contestant embarrasses himself on American Idol), sports (an opponent suffers injury), politics (an economic crisis during the other guy's term), and, of course, religion (the downfall of an ultramoral Chrisitan evangelist), but with a focus on the causes and effects of what philosopher Henri Bergson called an 'anesthesia of the heart' and its possible antidotes." -- Publisher's Weekly."
  • "Few people will easily admit to taking pleasure in the misfortunes of others. But who doesn't enjoy it when an arrogant but untalented contestant is humiliated on American Idol, or when the embarrassing vice of a self-righteous politician is exposed, or even when an envied friend suffers a small setback? The truth is that joy in someone else's pain-known by the German word schadenfreude--permeates our society. In The Joy of Pain, psychologist Richard Smith, one of the world's foremost authorities on envy and shame, sheds much light on a feeling we dare not admit. Smith argues that schadenfreud."
  • "Few people will easily admit to taking pleasure in the misfortunes of others. But who doesn't enjoy it when an arrogant but untalented contestant is humiliated on American Idol, or when the embarrassing vice of a self-righteous politician is exposed, or even when an envied friend suffers a small setback? The truth is that joy in someone else's pain-known by the German word schadenfreude--permeates our society. In The Joy of Pain, psychologist Richard Smith, one of the world's foremost authorities on envy and shame, sheds much light on a feeling we dare not admit. Smith argues that schadenfreud."@en

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  • "The joy of pain : schadenfreude and the dark side of human nature"
  • "The Joy of Pain : Schadenfreude and the Dark Side of Human Nature"
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