By contrast, if they felt benign envy they worked harder.
While the students who felt benign envy pledged to study more than they had in prior semesters, those who felt admiration didn't.
(They didn't do anything about it; they were just nasty). By contrast, if they felt benign envy they worked harder.
Historically, he said, sections like Potrero Hill have felt "benign neglect," suspecting that services were geared to the Castro, where more H.I.V.-infected people in the city live.
First, he worked with Dutch students, who have two words for envy, to gather baseline descriptions of how they felt benign envy, malicious envy, admiration, and resentment.
In another study, van de Ven found that students who felt benign envy, but not malicious envy or admiration, performed better on a test of creativity, the remote associates task: they were able to provide, on average, 11.4 correct answers, as compared to 9.8 when they felt admiration, and 8.5 when they felt malicious envy.
If the students had been primed by the first reading-comprehension exercise, they felt benign envy toward Hans (essentially, "I could do that, too, if I tried"); if they'd been primed by the second exercise, they felt slightly more admiration (something like, "I shouldn't even try; I'll just admire him from afar").
During my fellowship in critical care, the once-familiar bugs P. vivax, Entamoeba histolytica, and even Salmonella almost felt benign when compared to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus, and multidrug-resistant gram-negative bacteria that lurk in shiny hospitals in the United States.
