Why does "meshya emotion" that rejoice in the failure or misfortune of others influence our lives and happiness?

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A feeling of delight in failure or misfortune of others in German "Sherden FloydeIn Japan, "Meshiba"Exists as a word closer to it. Although it is a harmless meshy emotion if it is only enjoying watching the fail movie of others, it is explained in the movie as there is a possibility of putting people's lives in great danger.

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The feeling of "misfortunes of honey is taste of honey" "The unluckiness of others and today's well-cooked rice" is seen on the internet a lot, and as it shows its popularity, there are hundreds of thousands of failed movies · millions of failed movies It is being played. For example, two people moving in a golf cart ...


Collision with obstacles.


The cart wrecked. This is a scene of a TV program called "Jackass"Movie uploaded to YouTubeHas been played more than 460,000 times. People's misfortune and failure are pleasing, Jackass and "America's Funniest Home VideosA lot of failed movies are released to the public.


These are, as it were, non-fictional Chaplin movies.


So why do you feel pleased with the unhappiness of others? If so, this is the reason for identity and self-respect as the reason for the YouTube channelNerdwriter 1He insists.


Human society consists of comparison with competition ... ...


If you look at someone's failure, it is psychologically boosted as being superior to the one who fails.


This meshy human emotion becomes stronger when a failing person is domineering, has a great success, or "circumstances such as" natural pimple ". This is why it is easy for media attention when celebrities like Tiger Woods fail.


Also, fans of sports teams, etc. Mesumer emotions often reach group level.


A man who was sandwiched between fireworks on his pants ......


I will scatter my own sparks.


I ran away quickly. Like this, much of the feeling of pleasing from others' failures on YouTube and watching sports is harmless.


On the other hand, this meshesa emotion becomes a problem with respect to matters related to politics.


Mesumer emotion is easy to occur in the competition between the group to which you belong and the hostile group, such as sports, as mentioned above. In politics, Meshiuma emotions are born with the dominance and inferiority of political parties.


Even in the past research, we know that partisan relationships and the strength of one's identity to the party influence Meshma emotions.


When Republican George Bush stumble ...


Hillary Clinton of the Democratic Party laughs, and so on.


The problem is that politicians are subject to the well-being of many people, even if it is a failure of the rival group, negative results are finally revealed to "everyone". Even with political matters, it is known from investigation that people are pleased with failure of rival political parties.


However, since many people understand the meshewa feeling about political affairs as "inappropriate", they do not put too much emotion on the table. For that reason, although it is a pleasure, in the depths of the mind, it will be in a condition to hold conflicting feelings against myself having joy.


In the 2016 US presidential election, there were many meshes emotions between Donald Trump and Democrat supporters.


According to Nerdwriter 1, Meshima feelings in politics create two contradictory emotions, somewhere in our hearts, "We are taking the wrong way rival group, but we are trying to improve the situation" Because it thinks that it is.


On the other hand, President Trump has met all the characteristics of a meshma who is easy to embrace, saying "being successful" and "self-income" with "domineering", but in fact he is trying to show himself to the contrary. In other words, the contradictory idea that "This is an inappropriate feeling" held by people who have meshuma emotions about politics is hard to embrace President Trump.


It is natural for supporters of President Trump to have a pleasure in his candidacy and action ... ...


The problem is that those who do not support President Trump are willing to look at the behavior of President Trump, like those who are happy to see the failed movie.


Internet news media will recognize the behavior of those who do not support such President of Trump as "Behavior of people interested in President Trump". Therefore, the proportion of President Trump will appear in the news becomes extremely large.


Mr. Trump 's presidential election was the first event in history that the collective meshes emotion influenced political results. This is no longer a joke.


At the moment there is a mixture of entertainment, politics, journalism and meshy human emotions mixed around us, and this mixture is the best bait in news media.


Messiah emotions of people stirring up by the news media are getting bigger and bigger. But what we have to remember, regardless of what President Trumpp is going to do, that meshma feelings are like drugs. Regardless of what kind the drug is, drugs will come with tolerance if used. And, it creates the desire "to have more effective effect". Nerdwriter 1 calls attention as it is a clearly unsuitable feeling for politics.