Envy is a negative, destructive phenomenon for personality and team relations. However, the most controversial question of the stimulating function of envy, which is the motivation for success and competition. As a result, we found a lack of correlation between types of envy and the motivation to achieve / avoid failure, as well as competition. It is noted that the types of envy almost do not differ in the manifestation of aggressiveness and hostility. The hypothesis that envious people tend to experience a motivational conflict as a typical trait has not been confirmed, as well as the assumption that envious people are prone to risk for the sake of what is desired. We revealed the features of aggressive and conflict behavior on the way to the successful result of envious and unenvious students. / Зависть является негативным, разрушительным явлением для личности и ее отношений в коллективе. Однако наиболее спорным остается вопрос о стимулирующей функции зависти, которая заключается в побуждении к успеху и соперничеству. В результате проведенной работы было выявлено отсутствие связи между видами зависти и мотивацией достижения/избегания неудач, а также соперничеством. Было отмечено, что виды зависти практически не различаются в проявлении агрессивности и враждебности. Гипотеза о том, что для завистников свойственно переживание мотивационного конфликта в качестве типичной черты, не подтвердилась, как и предположение о том, что завистники склонны к рискованным поступкам ради желаемого. Были выявлены особенности агрессивного и конфликтного поведения на пути к успешному результату завистливых и независтливых студентов.

My dissertation examines how individuals respond to workplace social comparisons. I measure the explicit set of referent others that individuals compare themselves against in order to evaluate their own level of performance. I examine how the social context of these comparisons impact discretionary performance related behaviors by examining how an individual’s position within a social network and the structural characteristics of an individual’s reference group influences the experience of discrete emotions. Specifically, I examine how malicious envy and benign envy mediate the relationship between social comparison and workplace behavior in a field setting. Results indicate that social network structure plays a significant role in motivating both productive and counterproductive responses to social comparison. Whether or not an employee responds to upward social comparisons by increasing their own work effort or engaging in deviant behavior is influenced by the experience of benign and malicious envy, which is in turn influencedby the network structure of reference groups. Furthermore, social network position plays a moderating role in the occurrence of workplace deviance by either enhancing or limiting the opportunities an employee has to engage in deviant behavior.

This thesis addresses problems in the area of mechanism design. In many settings in winch collective decisions are made, individuals' actual preferences are not publicly observable. As a result, individuals should be relied on to reveal this information. We are interested in an important application of mechanism design, which is the construction of desirable procedures for deciding upon resource allocation or task assignment. We make two main contributions. First, we propose a new mechanism for allocating a divisible commodity between a number of buyers efficiently and fairly. Buyers are assumed to behave as price-anticipators rather than as price-takers. The proposed mechanism is as parsimonious as possible, in the sense that it requires participants to report a one-dimensional message (scalar strategy) instead of an entire utility function, as required by Vickrey-Clarke-Groves (VCG) mechanisms. We show that this mechanism yields efficient allocations in Nash equilibria and moreover, that these equilibria are envy-free. Additionally, we present distinct results that this mechanism is the only simple scalar strategy mechanism that both implements efficient Nash equilibria and satisfies the no envy axiom of fairness. The mechanism's Nash equilibria are proven to satisfy the fairness properties of both Ranking and Voluntary Participation. Our second contribution is to develop optimal VCG mechanisms in order to assign identical economic "bads" (for example, costly tasks) to agents. An optimal VCG mechanism minimizes the largest ratio of budget imbalance to efficient surplus over all cost profiles. The optimal non-deficit VCG mechanism achieves asymptotic budget balance, yet the non-deficit requirement is incompatible with reasonable welfare bounds. If we omit the non-deficit requirement, individual rationality greatly changes the behavior of surplus loss and deficit loss. Allowing a slight deficit, the optimal individually rational VCG mechanism becomes asymptotically budget balanced. Such a phenomenon cannot be found in the case of assigning economic "goods."

abstract: General Strain Theory (GST) posits that different types of strain lead to different types of negative emotions, some of which increase the likelihood of maladaptive coping. Much research on GST has focused on anger and depression. Far less attention has been directed toward other negative emotions, including anxiety and envy. The current study uses cross-sectional data from surveys administered to a university-based sample (N = 500) to address these voids and explore gender differences in the effects of strain and negative emotions in maladaptive coping. Results indicate that when gender differences existed in levels of strain and negative emotions, females experienced higher levels than males. Strain significantly predicted all four measures of negative emotions examined in this study. Finally, different negative emotions were found to have differing effects on different measures of maladaptive coping. Implications of this study for theory, future research, and policy are discussed. / Dissertation/Thesis / Masters Thesis Criminology and Criminal Justice 2015

The present communicarion reports a study abour verbal and non verbal behavior perceived as expression of envy in a sample of Peruvian students. 709 students of a privare university ofLima (376 women and 333 men} complered a 31-irems scale, prepared by rhe aurhors. They evaluared rhemselves in a 11-points scale abour rhe rheir traits of envioussnes and completed too a 11-points scale about the amount of envy in Peru, as they perceive it. Resulrs are almost the same form both genders (3.19 versus 3.20}, but women believe more than men there is envy in Peru (7.34 versus 6.96; <0.05). The behavior found as the most representative of envy was "one becomes green of envy" (Peruvian idiomatic expression that means extreme envy). The second behavior was malicious comments about mistakes and defeats of people. Aurhors comment these results in the frame of the social reality of Peru. / La presente comunicación reporta los resultados de una investigación acerca de conductas verbales y no verbales percibidas como indicadores de envidia en un grupo de estudiantes universitarios deLima Metropolitana. 709 estudiantes (376 mujeres y 333 hombres) respondieron una escala de 31 ítemes preparados por los autores. Además, se les solicitó que se autoevaluaran en una escala de Oa 10 como envidiosos -no envidiosos, y que valoraran el grado de envidia en el Perú, asimismo en una escala de O a 10 (nada de envidia- demasiada envidia). Tanto hombres como mujeres puntúanbajo en la autovaloración de la envidia (mujeres 3.19 versus hombres 3.20}, pero atribuyen (en especial las mujeres) mucha envidia a los peruanos (mujeres 7.34 versus hombres 6.96; <0.05). La conductaconsiderada como más expresiva de envidia tanto por hombres como por mujeres fue "ponerse verde de envidia". La segunda "comentar con alegría los fracasos de una persona". Los autores formulan una serie de comentarios acerca de los hallazgos en el contexto de la realidad peruana.

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Envy, as a result of upward social comparisons, is an unpleasant emotion that occurs when a consumer sees others as being more advantaged than him- or herself, in terms of achievements and/or possessions. Envy may drive the envious consumer to 'compete' with the envied-target through purchase of similar or better products; for that reason, envy is frequently used in advertising to motivate consumers to buy better products. While envy may be good for businesses as it may promote economic growth through the &ldquo;keeping up with the Joneses&rdquo; mechanism, envy tends to bring destructive behavior to consumers, especially in the long run. Departing from the view to maintain consumer welfare, we argue that envy should be reduced or perhaps, temporarily deactivated. Through a series of studies, we attempt to see if envy, as an emotion, can be transformed into an object upon which physical actions can be performed to destroy it, which thus reduces or temporarily deactivates envy. Furthermore, we want to see if any of these actions, assuming that envy is reduced or temporarily deactivated as a result, would lead consumers to adopt more pro-social behavior, as opposed to typical destructive behavior of envy. / Business Administration/Marketing

No / The Economics of Sin examines the definition and evolution of sin from the perspective of rational choice economics, yet is conscious of the limitations of such an approach. The author argues that because engaging in activities deemed to be sinful is an act of choice, it can therefore be subject to the logic of choice in the economic model. The book considers the formation of religions, including the new age revival of `wicca¿, as regulators of the quasi-market in sins, and goes on to appraise the role of specific sins such as lying, envy, jealousy, greed, lust, sloth, and waste in individual markets and in macroeconomic activity. Empirical evidence on issues such as cannibalism, capital punishment, addiction, adultery and prostitution is also explored. Samuel Cameron concludes that a large percentage of economic activity is intimately connected with forms of sin which are in some circumstances highly beneficial to the functioning of markets, particularly in the presence of market failure. This innovative, interdisciplinary study of the institution of sin will be of enormous interest to a wide-ranging readership, including researchers and teachers of economics, sociology and theology. It will also be of importance for anthropologists and philosophers.

The subject of the present thesis is an analysis of the ditransitive verbs envy and forgive in the ditransitive/double-object constructions, i.e., either the S-V-Oi-Od or S-V-O-Oprep argument structure, in which both objects are explicitly expressed. Envy and forgive represents marginal ditransitive verbs, whose accounts in major grammars and various studies are far from uniform. Occasionally considered idiosyncratic, the ditransitive use (i.e., the indirect pattern) of the two verbs is expected to decrease in frequency. Thus, the research aims to investigate the postverbal complementation preference of envy and forgive, and the way the preference changes over time. However, it is not the relative frequency of the S-V-Oi-Od pattern with respect to all remaining constructions that is of interest here, but its ratio to the frequency of the other available double object construction, the prepositional S-V-O-Oprep pattern. Additionally, the thesis provides a systematic overview of syntactic and semantic differences between envy and forgive as well as an account of their shared features and aspects. Particular attention is paid to the Oi/O realisation (e.g., the substantival or pronominal realisation) and the Od/Oprep realisation (namely, the substantival realisation, the pronominal realisation, the...

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-04T18:29:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Sebastiao Elyseu Junior 2.pdf: 1309648 bytes, checksum: 780dfab0e8a1fc758aa3bbf94ec05941 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-05-12 / This work deals with the building and validation of a scale of ownership of self-report, based on clinical experience and in an ethological ownership theory, that postulates it as a instinctive tendency of the individual to achieve and/or mantain the dominion of one or more figures of ownership by means of instinctive patterns of ownership behaviour, regulating the provision for self usufruct and/or of the offspring. This first version was composed of 25 items, related to the ownership of the two general types of figures of ownership: people and things. These items allow the subject to indicate the degree of intensity of the answers, in a 4-point Likert scale type (1-weak, 2-medium, 3- strong, 4-excessive). The phase of building included the semantical and theoretical analysis of the items by university students and judges, respectively. The level of agreement among five independent judges in relation to its theoretical pertinence was 90% and Kappa = 0,88, being, thus, high. The sample of the test was constituted of university students (N= 296, 140 male and 156 female) from the areas of humanities, exacts and biologics, aged 18-28. The phase of validation involved the reliability valuation, the construct validity and the criteria validity. The reliability study, made by the Spearman rank correlation coefficient (N= 84, 38 male and 46 female), indicated that the secure and anxious ownership patterns and envious pattern, for people figure, and the secure and anxious ownership patterns, for thing figure, presented acceptable temporal stability in the retest (p< 0,01), four months later. The study of construct validity, made by factorial analysis by the method of analysis of principal components and Oblimin rotation, resulted in three interpretable factors (21,88% of variance), that evaluate the following dimensions: F1 - Ownership security People, F2 - Ownership security Things, and F3 - Ownership detachment. The good internal consistency of the scale was revealed by an Alpha of 0,70. As measure of external criteria, for the study of criteria validity, semi-structured clinical interviews were carried out in a smaller sample (N= 30, 15 male and 15 female). A valuation of agreement among three independent judges, the author included, about the categorisation and quantification of the answers of four interviews, of 69,69% and, by the Kappa coefficient, of 0,51, 0,43 and 0,73 for each pair of judges, was considered acceptable, suggesting the reliability of the criteria. The Spearman rank correlation coefficients, between the scale and interviews, indicated good validity (p< 0,01) for the secure (rs = 0,65) and anxious (rs = 0,73) ownership patterns and envious pattern (rs = 0,65), when they refer to the figure of person or animal. When they refer to the figure of things, the coefficients were a little more modest, but significant (p< 0,01) for the secure (rs = 0,51) and jealous (rs = 0,54) ownership patterns. A descriptive analysis of the distribuition of the referred patterns, in the general sample and by sex, has also been carried out. / Trata-se da constru??o e valida??o de uma escala de posse de auto-relato, baseada na experi?ncia cl?nica e numa teoria etol?gica da posse, que a postula como uma tend?ncia instintiva de o indiv?duo obter e/ou manter o dom?nio de uma ou mais figuras de posse, por meio de padr?es instintivos de comportamento de posse, regulando a provis?o para usufruto pessoal e/ou da prole. Essa primeira vers?o ficou composta por 25 itens, referentes ? posse dos dois tipos gerais de figura de posse: pessoas e coisas. Esses itens permitem ao sujeito indicar o grau de intensidade das respostas, numa escala do tipo Likert de quatro pontos (1-fraca, 2-m?dia, 3-forte, 4-demasiada). A fase de constru??o incluiu a an?lise sem?ntica e te?rica dos itens por universit?rios e juizes, respectivamente. O ?ndice de acordo entre cinco juizes independentes sobre a sua pertin?ncia te?rica foi de 90% e Kappa = 0,88, sendo, portanto, alto. A amostra do teste foi constitu?da por universit?rios (N= 296, 140 homens e 156 mulheres) das ?reas de humanas, exatas e biol?gicas, entre 18 e 28 anos de idade. A fase de valida??o envolveu a estimativa de precis?o, a validade de constructo e a validade de crit?rio. O estudo de precis?o, feito pelo coeficiente de correla??o por postos de Spearman, com uma amostra (N= 84, 38 homens e 46 mulheres), indicou que os padr?es de posse segura e ansiosa e padr?o invejoso, para a figura de pessoa, e os padr?es de posse segura e ansiosa, para a figura de coisa, apresentaram estabilidade temporal aceit?vel no reteste (p< 0,01), quatro meses depois. O estudo de validade de constructo, feito por an?lise fatorial pelo m?todo de an?lise de componentes principais e rota??o Oblimin, resultou em tr?s fatores interpret?veis (21,88% de vari?ncia), que avaliam as seguintes dimens?es: F1 - Seguran?a da posse - Pessoas, F2 - Seguran?a de posse - Coisas, e F3 - Desprendimento da posse. A boa consist?ncia interna da escala foi revelada por um Alpha de 0,70. Como medida de crit?rio externo, para o estudo de validade de crit?rio, foram realizadas entrevistas cl?nicas semi-estruturadas numa amostra menor (N= 30, 15 homens e 15 mulheres). A estimativa de acordo entre tr?s juizes independentes, inclu?do o autor, sobre a categoriza??o e quantifica??o das respostas de quatro entrevistas, de 69,69%, e, pelo coeficiente Kappa, de 0,51, 0,43 e 0,73 para cada par de juizes, foi considerada aceit?vel, sugerindo a fidedignidade do crit?rio. Os coeficientes de correla??o por postos de Spearman, entre a escala e as entrevistas, indicaram boa validade (p< 0,01) para os padr?es de posse segura (rs = 0,65) e ansiosa (rs = 0,73) e padr?o invejoso (rs = 0,65), quando se referem ? figura de pessoa ou animal. Quando se referem ? figura de coisas, os coeficientes foram um pouco mais modestos, mas significantes (p< 0,01) para os padr?es de posse segura (rs = 0,51) e ciumenta (rs = 0,54). Uma an?lise descritiva da distribui??o dos referidos padr?es, na amostra geral e por sexo, tamb?m foi feita.