When confronted with people who seem to be more successful than you, how do you react? Are you filled with admiration, or do you pour your emotional energy into picking out their flaws? Perhaps you ...

It’s perfectly natural to compare ourselves to others—and feel a twinge of envy when we fear we’re falling short. Far from the sin we’ve all been told it is, envy can be a powerful motivator, a kind ...

Envy is a widely misinterpreted and misunderstood emotion, often associated with toxicity, mistrust, and resentment. In reality, though, envious people can sometimes feel the most empowered, ...

Envy is a complicated, chaotic, and overwhelming emotion that can be equally difficult to conceptualize in the person experiencing it and the one it’s targeted at. Envy also hardly manifests itself in ...

In the complex world of human interaction, unwarranted criticism and jealousy are prevalent issues that many individuals grapple with. This phenomenon isn’t just confined to personal relationships. It ...

In the 13th canto of “Purgatorio” in Dante’s Divine Comedy, the 14th-century Italian poet describes the ultimate punishment of people who in life had fallen prey to envy, one of the seven deadly sins.

Of course, envy is not always related to wealth. Anyone who stands out as above-average in some way, shape, or form can become a target of envy. In my novel 2075. Wenn Schönheit zum Verbrechen wird ...