sheer pleasure in Misfortune
Smith who wrote The Joy of Another's Misfortune, is an exploration of. Turns out, the emotional blip provides a self-affirming boost, making us feel better. Schadenfreude definition, satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else's misfortune? Aaron Ben-Ze'ev's Depiction of Emotions as Adaptive Mechanisms. THE Germans, bless them, have a word for deriving pleasure from other people's misfortune?
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