‘Envy is nothing but hate.’ –Spinoza
New research in Psychological Science found that the fear of being the target of malicious envy makes people act nicer to people they think might be jealous of them.
There are two types of envy says Niels van de Ven of Tilburg University and his coauthors: benign envy and malicious envy. People with benign envy are motivated to improve themselves, so they could be more like the person they envied. People with malicious envy want to bring the people above them down.
photo { David Stewart }
