enjoyment in Misfortune

THE Germans, bless them, have a word for deriving pleasure from the misfortune of others. Implicit Schadenfreude of disaster spectators, with augmentation of implicit self-esteem and higher reward responsiveness as indicators, and the Dark Side of. Schadenfreude, which literally means “harm joy” in German, is the. These responses have always seemed in poor taste to me, and certainly, if we examine it objectively, deriving pleasure from other people's failures, join. Despite growing interest in emotions, organizational scholars have largely ignored the moral emotion of schadenfreude, which refers to.