The Complexity of Envy

Bénédicte Vidaillet

Chapter 1 in Workplace Envy, 2008, pp 11-25 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Let us begin with the difficult task of defining envy. First of all, it is often confused with jealousy, which as we shall see later is actually clearly distinguishable from envy. More fundamentally, envy refers to a complex psychological process; it is so complex that envious people themselves are not always aware of it and are sometimes the last persons to realize that their behavior is attributable to envious motives.2

Keywords: Social Comparison; Painful Emotion; Potential Rival; Professional World; Moral Connotation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230227408_2

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