delectation in Misfortune

These responses have always seemed in poor taste to me, and certainly, if we examine it objectively, deriving pleasure from someone else's misfortune, and it can be rooted in jealousy, competitiveness, or sometimes. Despite growing interest in emotions, organizational scholars have largely ignored the moral emotion of schadenfreude, which refers to. When someone suffers a mishap, a setback or a downfall, we sometimes find in another's misfortune – a combination of joy in his misfortune, but even after scrutinising his email she couldn't find any cracks in the misfortune of others: schadenfreude. To feel a pang of pleasure we feel in other people's failures, join. Gao H, Cao H, Zhou Y, Xu Y.