62 - Schadenfreude: Is it ok to feel like this?

This week, in the wake of President Trump being diagnosed with COVID-19, the world has been going through a collective emotional experience. People who ordinarily wouldn’t relish in the misfortunes of others are feeling a pleasurable twinge of schadenfreude. We noticed people talking about how guilty they’ve felt so we wanted to pull apart this complex emotion in the two shrinks way: What is it? Why do we experience it? And is it really ok to feel like this?As always, to wrap up we finish with Things We Came Across: why narcissists aren’t wearing masks and odd things that have happened in interviews. We learnt about schadenfreude in:Schadenfreude: Understanding Pleasure at the Misfortune of Others: www.cambridge.org/9781107017504&nbsp;The relationship between schadenfreude &amp; sadism: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0191886916300071 Schadenfreude &amp; ingroup outgroup bias:http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~banaji/research/publications/articles/2017_Lehr_GPIR.pdf Integrating multiple perspectives on schadenfreude: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11031-012-9331-4 TWCAWhy narcissists aren’t wearing masks &amp; how to approach them: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/wellness/narcissism-mask-covid-psychology/2020/09/25/d3de1b32-fe9c-11ea-9ceb-061d646d9c67_story.html&nbsp; <figure class=" sqs-block-image-figure intrinsic " > 62 - Schadenfreude: is it ok to feel like this? Dr Hunter Mulcare & Amy Donaldson Download