Whether it's laughing at fail videos or relishing those times when a rival sports team lost the big game, we all enjoy watching other's misfortunes. There's actually a word for this. It's called ...

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 ...

The word schadenfreude is a compound the German schaden meaning “damage” or “harm” and freude meaning “joy.” It is the opposite of sympathy. Schadenfreude is an emerging area of scientific interest, ...

It's perhaps one of those "biggest mysteries" about human beings. Schadenfreude is an English term (believe it or not!), meaning deriving pleasure from others' misfortune. Why would any human feel ...

Sometimes it makes us happy when others have a little mishap — and that's okay! Schadenfreude, or the malicious joy we feel at another person's pain, is not as bad as you might think. Schadenfreude is ...

Next year will mark 20 years since the founding of Facebook. In a retrospective interview in 2016, co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg recalled the happiness he felt on the day in 2004 when the website ...

A speeding driver cuts you off, then gets pulled over by the cops. A co-worker brags about training for a marathon, then doesn’t finish it. The prettiest girl in school who always gets the guy -- ...

Feel a happy tinge when someone else is doing worse off than you? Can’t help but laugh at a kid falling over and dropping their ice cream? Unable to hide your delight at seeing the failures of the ...

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 ...

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