Schadenfreude and altruism: an evolutionary psychological study
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17K13905
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Social psychology
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| Research Institution | Waseda University (2018-2019)
Tokyo Seitoku University (2017) |
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Principal Investigator |
Tatsunori Ishii 早稲田大学, 理工学術院, 次席研究員(研究院講師) (40708989)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2017-04-01 – 2020-03-31
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2019)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥3,770,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥870,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥3,120,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥720,000)
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| Keywords | シャーデンフロイデ / 罰 / 攻勢 / 利他主義 / 協力 / 公正 / 規範逸脱 / 社会系心理学 / 実験系心理学 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Schadenfreude refers to pleasure at another person’s misfortune. The purpose of this study was to examine the hypothesis that schadenfreude originates in the pleasurable feelings that follow achieving punishment for a person who violates the social norm. I measured the motivation to punish the unfair by the Sanction Behavioral Propensity Scale (Morimoto et al., 2006) and the Retribution Belief Scale (Gerber & Jackson, 2013). I then measured schadenfreude in a variety of unfortunate situations (e.g., failure in a job interview, being sentenced to imprisonment for an injury). The results show that the motivation to suffer the unfair, rather than the motivation to seek social justice, consistently predicts schadenfreude positively.
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| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
シャーデンフロイデとは、他者の不幸を喜ぶ感情のことであり、一般には非道徳的な感情であるとされることも多い。しかしながら本研究の結果は、この感情が、ヒトの協力的な社会の維持に必要な「規範違反者への罰」に関わり、社会にとって不可欠な心的仕組みに由来している可能性を示した。このことはシャーデンフロイデという感情の再評価を促すとともに、この感情には進化心理学的に裏付けられた社会的機能があることを示唆するものである。
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