Emotional mimicry is the imitation of the emotional expressions of others. According to the
classic view on emotional mimicry (the Matched Motor Hypothesis), people mimic the …

Despite envy's importance as a driver of social behavior, scholars disagree on its
conceptualization. We review the literature and distinguish three incongruent theories:(a) …

Previous research has conceptualized dispositional envy as a unitary construct. Recently
however, episodic envy has been shown to emerge in two qualitatively different forms …

The wealth of social information presented on Facebook is astounding. While these
affordances allow users to keep up-to-date, they also produce a basis for social comparison …

We integrate moral disengagement, social identification, and social norms theories to
develop, test, and replicate a model that explains how and when envy is associated with …

Envy is the painful emotion caused by the good fortune of others. This research empirically
supports the distinction between two qualitatively different types of envy, namely benign and …

Emotional Schema Therapy: Distinctive Features offers a concise overview to what is
distinctive about this new approach to helping clients cope with" difficult" emotions. Written …

Empathy allows individuals to share the affective states of others, predict others' actions, and
stimulate prosocial behavior. Whilst the proximate mechanisms of empathy, modulated in …

Envy stems from a social comparison with a superior standard. Its 2 distinct forms are
directed at changing this situation in different ways, either by becoming as successful as the …

Four studies tested the hypothesis that the emotion of benign envy, but not the emotions of
admiration or malicious envy, motivates people to improve themselves. Studies 1 to 3 found …