Counterfactual thoughts distinguish benign and malicious envy.

Volume: 21, Issue: 5, Pages: 905 - 920
Published: Aug 1, 2021
Abstract
When people encounter others surpassing them in terms of an important quality, possession, or achievement, they often think about what might have happened differently so that they would have obtained a better outcome. Such upward counterfactual thoughts have been shown to contribute to the intensity of envy. We investigated whether specific counterfactual thoughts distinguish different forms of envy, namely benign envy, which entails upward...
Paper Details
Title
Counterfactual thoughts distinguish benign and malicious envy.
Published Date
Aug 1, 2021
Journal
Volume
21
Issue
5
Pages
905 - 920
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