Politics of interconfessional empathy and Schadenfreude in Lebanon

Konstantin Ash and Thomas M. Dolan
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Konstantin Ash: University of Central Florida, USA
Thomas M. Dolan: University of Central Florida, USA

Conflict Management and Peace Science, 2021, vol. 38, issue 6, 718-741

Abstract: We analyze the sources of two politically relevant, yet opposing emotions: empathy and Schadenfreude. We propose that group and individual-level political factors affect empathy and Schadenfreude toward other groups. Using a survey experiment conducted in Lebanon we find that, when presented with a prompt about political repression, respondents are less likely to express empathy and more likely to express Schadenfreude when victims of political repression were from the out-group perceived as their group’s most recent antagonist. At the individual level, those more involved in their in-group’s community are generally more likely to feel Schadenfreude and less likely to express empathy.

Keywords: Conflict; emotion; ethnicity; repression (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1177/0738894220906370

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