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Counterfactual thoughts distinguish benign and malicious envy
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2020
unpublished
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 motivation, and malicious envy—which entails
doi:10.31234/osf.io/kbqfv
fatcat:a57riuldgrebnd7aoe4jmt5xra