According to a 2020 study published in Personality and Individual Differences, the feelings that arise at the expense of another person's suffering may simply be based on whether we like that person or not. In the study, researchers looked at reactions to test subjects who engaged in various gambling tasks in which they won, lost, or watched strangers play. The results showed that when the gambler was a stranger or a liked person, then all subjects showed empathy.
Sometimes we invite people to feel schadenfreude, for example when we start a new job and tell an anecdote about some disaster that befell us on the way to work, we want people to laugh at our suffering so they see us as less of a threat.
Everyone feels schadenfreude or a lack of empathy from time to time, we don't have to feel guilty about it. It's just human nature, so it's natural to feel that way. However, the next time we need to be excited when someone gets what comes their way, remember there's nothing wrong with feeling a little joy.
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BalasI hope that this is your own writing...
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