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Low self-esteem makes you enjoy misfortune of others
Wednesday December 14, 2011 08:14:00 AM,
IANS
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London: Blame your low
self-esteem for gloating when someone slips and falls or spills
coffee down his or her shirt, suggest scientists from Leiden
University in the Netherlands.
"If somebody enjoys the misfortune of others, then there's
something in that misfortune that is good for the person," said
study co-author Wilco W van Dijk.
Van Dijk and his colleagues drew their conclusions after testing
70 undergraduates by asking them to read two interviews, reported
the Daily Mail.
The first was about an ambitious student who was aiming to secure
a dream job. The second was a chat with his supervisor who
revealed that his academic success had been extremely patchy and
that he wouldn't be offered the role.
The volunteers were then given various statements and asked to
what degree they agreed with them. Their responses would measure
their susceptibility to such gloating.
The statements included "I enjoy[ed] what happened to Marleen/Mark"
and "I couldn't resist a little smile".
Self-esteem levels had been worked out in a separate test before
this stage of the experiment and the results show that those with
a low opinion of themselves were happiest at learning of a
student's misfortune.
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