Schadenfreude

Why we feel better when bad things happen to other people

Tiffany Watt Smith

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02 July 2021

Psychology; Psychology: emotions; Popular psychology; Gift books

'A delightful book, full of jokes and confessions' - Guardian

In Schadenfreude, historian of emotions Tiffany Watt Smith offers expert insight and advice. Ranging across thinkers from Nietzsche to Homer Simpson, investigating the latest scientific research, and collecting some outrageous confessions on the way - she reveals how everyone, babies, nuns, your most trusted friends, are enjoying your misfortunes. But rather than an emotional glitch, she argues, Schadenfreude can reveal profound truths about our relationships with others and our sense of who we are.

Frank, warm and laugh-out-loud funny, Schadenfreude makes the case for thinking afresh about this much-maligned emotion - and perhaps, even, embracing it.

By: Tiffany Watt Smith
Imprint: Profile
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: Main
Dimensions: Height: 196mm, Width: 128mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 152g
ISBN: 9781781259108
ISBN 10: 1781259100
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 02 July 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Tiffany Watt Smith is a cultural historian and author of The Book of Human Emotions. Her TED talk 'The History of Human Emotions' has been viewed by more than 4 million people. She regularly appears as an expert contributor on BBC radio and her writing has appeared in The Guardian, The New Scientist and BBC Magazine among others. She is Reader in Cultural History at Queen Mary University of London, where she is also Director of the Centre for the History of Emotions. In 2018 she was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize for her research.

Reviews for Schadenfreude: Why we feel better when bad things happen to other people

[This] treatise on one of the most shame-inducing but widespread of all emotions is funny and insightful * Sunday Times * [a] delightful book, full of jokes and confessions -- Stuart Jeffries * Guardian *