Schadenfreude: Malicious Joy in Social Media Interactions

Schadenfreude: Malicious Joy in Social Media Interactions

The paper presents a model of Schadenfreude, pleasure at another’s misfortune, resulting in a typology of cases of this emotion. Four types are singled out: Compensation, Identification, Aversion, and Injustice Schadenfreude. The typology is first tested on a corpus of 472 comments drawn from three...

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Main Authors: Christian Cecconi, Isabella Poggi, Francesca D’Errico
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
schadenfreude
emotion classification
lexicometric analysis
social media
adaptive functions of emotions
emotion extraction
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.558282/full

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