The Counterfactual Nature of Envy: “It Could Have Been Me”


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Niels van de Ven, Marcel Zeelenberg
Cognition and Emotion, vol. 29(6), 2015, pp. 954-971


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van de Ven, N., & Zeelenberg, M. (2015). The Counterfactual Nature of Envy: “It Could Have Been Me.” Cognition and Emotion, 29(6), 954–971. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2014.957657


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Ven, Niels van de, and Marcel Zeelenberg. “The Counterfactual Nature of Envy: ‘It Could Have Been Me.’” Cognition and Emotion 29, no. 6 (2015): 954–971.


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van de Ven, Niels, and Marcel Zeelenberg. “The Counterfactual Nature of Envy: ‘It Could Have Been Me.’” Cognition and Emotion, vol. 29, no. 6, 2015, pp. 954–71, doi:10.1080/02699931.2014.957657.


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@article{niels2015a,
  title = {The Counterfactual Nature of Envy: “It Could Have Been Me”},
  year = {2015},
  issue = {6},
  journal = {Cognition and Emotion},
  pages = {954-971},
  volume = {29},
  doi = {10.1080/02699931.2014.957657},
  author = {van de Ven, Niels and Zeelenberg, Marcel}
}

[counterfactuals are the thoughts we have when we compare the situation as it is, to what it could have been. we find that the more people think the counterfactual thought "it could have been me", the more they experience envy]

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