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Showing 1 to 20 of 57 for “"envy"”.
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The Relationship Between Facets of Envy and Narcissism Subtype in a Non-Clinical Sample
<p>This study examined the relationships between envy, measured as a unitary dispositional trait and as its two subtypes (benign and malicious envy), and types of narcissism (grandiose and vulnerable narcissism). CCNY undergraduates completed online self-report questionnaires and a virtual task in …
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NO LONGER GREEN WITH ENVY: HOW TURNING EMOTIONS INTO OBJECTS ENABLES CONSUMERS TO PHYSICALLY DESTROY THEM
Envy, as a result of upward social comparisons, is an unpleasant emotion that occurs when a consumer sees others as being more advantaged than him- or herself, in terms of achievements and/or possessions. Envy may drive the envious consumer to 'compete' with the envied-target through purchase of …
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The Second Sin: A Study of the Vice of Envy in the Thought of St. Augustine
<p>This dissertation examines the vice of envy in the thought of St. Augustine. Though much has been written on many aspects of Augustine’s moral theology, his theology of envy remains virtually unexplored in scholarship. This is surprising for several reasons: first because of the frequency with …
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Peer Attitudes Toward Giftedness
… of admiration (Hareli,& Weiner, 2002) and envy (Hareli, & Weiner, 2000) between perceptions of controllability and the behavioral response of affiliation. Multiple factorial ANOVA’s were used to compare the mean levels of controllability, admiration, envy, and affiliation to detect …
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Peer Attitudes Toward Giftedness
… of admiration (Hareli,& Weiner, 2002) and envy (Hareli, & Weiner, 2000) between perceptions of controllability and the behavioral response of affiliation. Multiple factorial ANOVA’s were used to compare the mean levels of controllability, admiration, envy, and affiliation to detect …
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Immoral Economy: Negative Ethics and Everyday Economic Life in the Southern Peruvian Andes
… again taken up in Chapter Four, which examines envy ascription and envy avoidance. I demonstrate how public commitments to avoiding envy contrast with private narratives about others’ envy, where the attribution of bad intentionality to others bolsters people’s self-constructions as good people …
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Applying the SCM and BIAS Map Models to Theories of Sexual Harassment
… feel about the target - pity, admiration, envy, contempt) and behavioral reactions (how observers act toward the target - active facilitation, passive facilitation, active harm, passive harm). Higher status targets were perceived as more competent than lower status targets. Competition did …
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Essays on Market Design and Auction Theory
… colleges and students) and leads to justified envy among students. When the colleges consider multiple dimensions of students merits, their evaluations are unlikely to be perfectly correlated. In such a case, colleges may avoid head-on competition by distorting their evaluation to place …
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Bitter Relish
… temperament of human nature. For instance: the envy of youth, attraction to immorality, need for melodrama, disinterest when feelings are reciprocated, and the glamour of lust. The protagonists usually become aware of these trivial motivations, usually followed by the collapse of a particular …
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El Niño
… in a psychodrama of projected hostility, envy and pity. The question that El Nino grapples with is "how is it that the love between men and women can seem like an increasingly scarce resource that needs to be fought over like land or language or money?" And is it?
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