The little green monster

Little green molecules.

Little green primates

looks at the news reports describing the world's first transgenic monkey. There is a rhythm to many science reports. First, the dramatic headline. Next, the pithy lead paragraph, which often promises more than the story delivers. And then the knockout quote — someone of stature validating the story's premise. A funny thing happened with the stories regarding ANDi, the world's first genetically ...

Little Green Molecules By Terrence

The green-eyed monster and malicious joy: the neuroanatomical bases of envy and gloating (schadenfreude).

Facing a protagonist's emotional mental state can trigger social emotions (or 'fortune of others' emotion), such as envy or gloating, which reflect one's assessment of the consequences of the other's fortune. Here we suggest that these social emotions are mediated by the mentalizing network. The present article explores the notion that the understanding of social competitive emotions is particu...

Jealousy and the threatened self: getting to the heart of the green-eyed monster.

Several theories specifying the causes of jealousy have been put forth in the past few decades. Firm support for any proposed theory, however, has been limited by the difficulties inherent in inducing jealousy and examining any proposed mediating mechanisms in real time. In support of a theory of jealousy centering on threats to the self-system, 2 experiments are presented that address these pa...