Our study provides new empirical evidence that interpersonal comparison could trigger the emotion of envy as well.
"Did Masters and Johnson come in yet?" asks Pete, and three months into Draper's new marriage, the whole office is still shaken by her presence, which triggers lust, disdain, envy, amusement, and fear, in individualized combinations.
And Mr. Bettany's hair-trigger envy is astonishing.
But when it triggers envy among users, that's a different story.
His rise has triggered envy and resentment from rivals.
In this study, 21 manifest HD patients, 19 first-degree asymptomatic relatives, and 23 healthy controls performed an experimental task designed to trigger schadenfreude, envy (another social emotion acting as an affective control condition), and control situations.
5. Use the comparison trigger of envy to your advantage.
Step one triggers the envy, "Obama is so popular".
Lovey-dovey couples, nauseating baby pictures and images posted from exotic holidays are the kinds of material that can lead to symptoms of depression and trigger feelings of envy among users, the academics found.
They not only make us feel inadequate but in the process of doing so trigger disagreeable feelings of envy within us--not that we will admit as much.
LONDON (Reuters) - Witnessing friends' vacations, love lives and work successes on Facebook can cause envy and trigger feelings of misery and loneliness, according to German researchers.
