The Positive Form of Dark Enjoyment

“...people participate in online shaming because they get an emotional payoff – that is, because it feels good to do it.”

We discuss a recent published paper "Doing good or feeling good? Justice concerns predict online shaming via deservingness and schadenfreude".

We talking about the value of moral outrage, the pleasure of seeing people fall, stigmatizing shaming vs re-integrative shaming and the moderated enjoyment of Schadenfreude.

We also dive into about the paradox of not doing harm to others, transgressive enjoyments, examining ones own sadism and clients trolling their therapists. 

Harriet and Ikoi also discuss the idea of being stuck in trauma and the need to have someone in your life who genuinely cares. 

We end by asking the question: is their a positive to Schadenfreude?

References:

Doing good or feeling good? Justice concerns predict online shaming via deservingness and schadenfreude: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4359608

Schadenfreude ("the experience of pleasure that comes from others troubles"): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schadenfreude

SICKOS HAHA YES MEME: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/sickos-haha-yes

Fundamental Attribution Error: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error

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Harriet’s other shows:

WBAI Interpersonal Update (Wednesdays): https://wbai.org/program.php?program=431

Capitalism Hits Home: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPJpiw1WYdTNYvke-gNRdml1Z2lwz0iEH

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