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Schadenfreude: why we feel better when bad things happen to other people

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In Schadenfreude, historian of emotions Tiffany Watt Smith offers expert insight and advice. Ranging across thinkers from Nietzsche to Homer Simpson, investigating the latest scientific research, and collecting some outrageous confessions on the way - she reveals how everyone, babies, nuns, your most trusted friends, are enjoying your misfortunes. But rather than an emotional glitch, she argues, Schadenfreude can reveal profound truths about our relationships with others and our sense of who we are.

Frank, warm and laugh-out-loud funny, Schadenfreude makes the case for thinking afresh about this much-maligned emotion - and perhaps, even, embracing it.

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152 WAT s

Publisher

London : Profile Books Ltd., 2018

Collation

192 p. ; ill. ; 20 cm

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781781259108

Classification

152

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Subject(s)

History
Science
Psychology
reference
PHILOSOPHY
Sociology
Self Help
Non Fiction

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Level

High School

Book Segment

Select -- Reading for pleasure -- Program Reference

Reading Level

Independent

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