An Emotion Divided

I Resent People This article is mainly about envy. The question of the matter is whether studying envy is better than studying benign and malicious envy. In this article, Cohen-Charash and Larson said, “Envy is a painful emotion that involves the beliefs that one lacks a desired object that another person has, and the desired object is important to the person’s self-concept or competitive position” (Cohen-Charash & Larson, 2017, p.175). Benign envy is believed to be the “good” envy, whereas malicious envy is believed to be the “bad” envy.

Benign envy is defined as allowing people to present themselves positively by praising others for their success and indicates the drive for self-improvement. Even though this is said to be the “good” envy, it is still considered to be painful. It’s painful because it relates to someone being concerned with his or her own desires. Some might conclude this as being selfish. For example, you praise others for succeeding while pushing yourself to be in their shoes. This brings up the issue as to why this is

The major link between this study and the text is the use of experimental design. The research study includes case studies, threats to internal validity, and its factorial designs. There are plenty more relations between the journal and the text, but these are just a few to name. The measurement of envy is depicted through case studies. For example, each participant is measured by a different method. In the experiment, one participant is required to recall past events or events from a daily diary, another is required to answer a hypothetical question, and the other participants are asked to measure envy based on frustration or jealousy. All the reactions are coming from “retroactive accounts”, except for the last group of participants (Cohen-Charash & Larson, 2017, p.177). With these case studies, each person is measured on their personal