Schadenfreude May Be More Innate Than Learned, As 2-Year-Olds Display Pleasure In Misfortune. Two studies examined intergroup schadenfreude - an emotion defined as deriving pleasure. When someone suffers a mishap, a setback or a downfall, we sometimes find ourselves experiencing schadenfreude - malicious pleasure at another's misfortune - is attenuated by our perception of how much that person deserved. Schadenfreude is a German term that describes the complicated joy people sometimes get from someone else's misfortune Pleasure from witnessing someone else's misfortune. Epicaricacy Feeling of joy in the very inadequate.
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