Intranasal Administration of Oxytocin Increases Envy and Schadenfreude (Gloating) - 0 views
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Rudy Garns on 01 Sep 09Envy and schadenfreude (gloating over the other's misfortune) are social emotions widely agreed to be a symptom of the human social tendency to compare one's payoffs with those of others. Given the important social components of envy and gloating, we speculated that oxytocin may have a modulating effect on the intensity of these emotions.
