Why do you feel happy when others fail?

31/01/2018shubham guptaAudrey Hepburn, Emotions, Empathy, Idealist temperament, Misfortune, Neuroscience, Professor, psychologist, Psychology, Richard H. Smith, Schadenfreude, Workplace

Have you ever sat across a colleague at a workplace who is discussing and enjoying someone’s misfortune instead of empathizing? Well, this colleague of yours may be experiencing ‘schadenfreude’ (pronounced shaaden-froyda). It stems from the feeling when an individual gets a sense of satisfaction if misfortune befalls someone. Wikipedia explains ‘Schadenfreude’ as “the experience of…