title: Taking pleasure at another's misfortune: the implicit Schadenfreude of disaster spectators.
abstract: Implicit Schadenfreude of disaster spectators, with augmentation of implicit self-esteem and higher reward responsiveness as indicators, and the influence of insecurity and masculinity was explored in two studies. Both studies were conducted under conditions without any clearly legitimizing factors. Experimental (priming with disaster video) and control (priming with neutral video) groups were compared using the Implicit Association Test in Study 1, the results of which showed augmentation of implicit self-esteem in the experimental group. In Study 2, participants who read and believed a fabricated news report of fire disaster via a local area network website showed higher reward responsiveness in a reward-based signal-detection task. Other results showed that insecurity negatively predicted the augmentation of implicit self-esteem and reward responsiveness, while masculinity only negatively predicted the augmentation of implicit self-esteem.
authors.forename: Hongmei
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.forename: Hongbei
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Cao
authors.forename: Ya
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: Yan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Yubo
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Feng
authors.forename: Fang
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Yongyuan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Chen
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D004190:Disasters; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D057228:Masculinity; D057181:Pleasure; D012054:Reinforcement, Psychology; D012201:Reward; D012649:Self Concept; D017603:Signal Detection, Psychological; D055815:Young Adult