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Boecker, Lea, Likowski, Katja U., Pauli, Paul ORCID: 0000-0003-0692-6720 and Weyers, Peter (2015). The face of schadenfreude: Differentiation of joy and schadenfreude by electromyography. Cogn. Emot., 29 (6). S. 1117 - 1126. ABINGDON: ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD. ISSN 1464-0600

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Abstract

The present study investigated whether the facial expression of the social emotion schadenfreude, the pleasant emotion which arises in response to another's misfortune, can be differentiated from the facial expression of joy. Schadenfreude was induced by videos displaying unsuccessful penalty shots of Dutch soccer players and joy by successful penalty shots of German soccer players. Thirty-two participants watched videos while the activity of four facial muscles was recorded electromyographically. Furthermore, they judged each stimulus according to valence, arousal, joy, schadenfreude and sadness. Electromyography (EMG) results revealed that schadenfreude expressions did not differ from joy with regard to involved muscles (increase of Musculus zygomaticus major and M. orbicularis oculi activity, decrease of M. corrugator supercilii activity, no activity change of M. frontalis medialis). Furthermore, facial reactions developed fast in both conditions and EMG indicated stronger reactions in the schadenfreude condition, but according to ratings participants felt more pleasure in the joy condition.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Boecker, Lea UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Likowski, Katja U. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Pauli, Paul UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0003-0692-6720 UNSPECIFIED Weyers, Peter UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-396380
DOI:	10.1080/02699931.2014.966063
Journal or Publication Title:	Cogn. Emot.
Volume:	29
Number:	6
Page Range:	S. 1117 - 1126
Date:	2015
Publisher:	ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
Place of Publication:	ABINGDON
ISSN:	1464-0600
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language RAPID FACIAL REACTIONS; ANOTHERS MISFORTUNE; EMOTIONS; ENVY; PLEASURE; MIMICRY Multiple languages Psychology, Experimental Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/39638