Presuming guilt because someone lives in a mansion is no better than doing so because someone lives in a trailer park.

Few foreign words have migrated into English as smoothly — or as mischievously — as the German term “schadenfreude.” It’s a linguistic smirk built from two simple parts: harm and joy. If you wonder ...

By Herman M. Lagon There is a German word that sounds heavier than it looks: schadenfreude. It means taking quiet pleasure in ...

Schadenfreude, or “happiness at the misfortune of others,” isn’t a fun emotion for most of us, but we all feel it, if only for a brief moment. And, to this point, it’s been assumed that it was just a ...

Schadenfreude, a word borrowed from German (translation: harm joy), is the deliciously evil feeling of deriving happiness, however small and petty, from someone else’s misfortune. If you’ve ever ...

After President Donald Trump announced his COVID-19 diagnosis, Merriam-Webster Dictionary reported a 30,000% increase in searches for the word “schadenfreude.” The German word, which is often ...

A case in point: A few months after I was a fired by a boss whom I disliked, I learned that he had been fired. Schadenfreude! I felt the same way when I read a negative review of a book by a French ...

Full confession: after the concerns raised by scientists about brain imaging, which I've written before as well as in the paper magazine, I don't think I'll ever look at an fMRI study the same way ...

New psychological research shows that your secret joy at others’ misfortunes can be measured. Although many won’t admit it outright, “schadenfreude” can be a secret source of joy. With etymological ...

While working on this review of Tiffany Watt Smith’s lively little book about the “ethically ambiguous” emotion of schadenfreude — taking pleasure in the humiliations and failures of other people — a ...

We all feel schadenfreude sometimes. It's feeling a sense of pleasure when you see other people's misfortune. But it could help psychologists understand dark personality traits better. According to ...

Schadenfreude is an emotion most people try to hide. But research shows people are more likely to exhibit this feeling if they are die-hard fans of a particular sports team. People learn young that we ...