%0 Journal Article
%T When we enjoy bad news about other groups: A social identity approach to out
%A Charlotte C. Vonkeman
%A Jaap W. Ouwerkerk
%A Russell Spears
%A Wilco W. van Dijk
%J Group Processes & Intergroup Relations
%@ 1461-7188
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/1368430216663018
%X Two studies investigate schadenfreude (pleasure at the misfortune of others) as an emotional response to news about out-group misfortunes in a political and consumer context by analyzing reactions of voters for opposition parties to the downfall of a Dutch coalition government (Study 1), and of BlackBerry users to negative news reports about Apple¡¯s iPhone (Study 2). Consistent with social identity theory and intergroup emotion theory, both studies demonstrate that affective in-group identification increases schadenfreude reactions to news about an out-group¡¯s misfortune, provided that this misfortune occurs in a domain of interest to news recipients. Additional findings show that this interaction effect attenuates when a misfortune instead befalls the in-group (Study 1) and is still observed when controlling for affective dispositions towards the out-group (Study 2). Moreover, results suggest that schadenfreude reactions strengthen subsequent intentions to share news about the out-group¡¯s misfortune with others or to engage in negative word-of-mouth (Study 2)
%K intergroup emotion
%K negative word-of-mouth
%K schadenfreude
%K social identity
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1368430216663018