In two experiments we demonstrated that a self-evaluation threat intensifies schadenfreude. Moreover, we showed that a self-evaluation threat predicts schadenfreude in both threat-related and threat-unrelated domains and when controlling for feelings of envy and dislike towards the target and evaluations of the misfortune in terms of deservingness. These findings indicate that another's misfort...

In 2013 Facebook launched a feature allowing users to add a feeling tag to their posts as part of their daily interactions online. Our research leverages the text accompanying all such volunteered feeling tags in an effort to map the semantic space of ‘Facebook feelings’ as they are catalogued by the crowd. By letting the data speak for itself, a folksonomy of feelings reveal temporal and socia...

OBJECTIVES The aim of the study was to analyze relationships between the variables: severity of depression symptoms, feelings towards one's own body, dissociation, the number and type of traumatic life events experienced by adolescents who engage in deliberate self-injury and are psychiatrically hospitalized. METHODS We examined 60 patients aged 13-17 (M = 15.48, SD = 1.19). More than a half ...

Introduction: Teaching Qualifications (TQs) have been implemented in University Medical Centers, but their relation to teachers’ motivation for medical teaching is unknown. Because teacher motivation influences important outcomes, it is crucial to study how TQs are related to promoting teacher motivation, by fulfilling the basic needs of feeling autonomous, competent, and related towards medica...