Feeling bad for feeling good. Such is the strange internal conflict that is Schadenfreude, a German word, literally translated as “harm joy,” that describes taking pleasure, however fleeting, in someone else’s misfortune. More complex and layered than envy or shame, schadenfreude is as universal a human emotion as exists … and yet it is a word with no simple equivalent in English. Largely ignored for years, schadenfreude has lately become something of a hot topic, and more and more scholars and researchers have begun to pull back its dark petals to investigate its motivational role in business, in partnerships, and, for that matter, in all human interaction.
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