Niels van de Ven - Why Envy Outperforms Admiration

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Niels van de Ven, Marcel Zeelenberg, Rik Pieters
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, vol. 37(6), 2011, pp. 784-795

DOI: 10.1177/0146167211400421

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van de Ven, N., Zeelenberg, M., & Pieters, R. (2011). Why Envy Outperforms Admiration. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 37(6), 784–795. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167211400421

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Ven, Niels van de, Marcel Zeelenberg, and Rik Pieters. “Why Envy Outperforms Admiration.” Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 37, no. 6 (2011): 784–795.

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van de Ven, Niels, et al. “Why Envy Outperforms Admiration.” Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, vol. 37, no. 6, 2011, pp. 784–95, doi:10.1177/0146167211400421.

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@article{niels2011a,
  title = {Why Envy Outperforms Admiration},
  year = {2011},
  issue = {6},
  journal = {Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin},
  pages = {784-795},
  volume = {37},
  doi = {10.1177/0146167211400421},
  author = {van de Ven, Niels and Zeelenberg, Marcel and Pieters, Rik}
}

[benign envy is found to actually motivate people to do better themselves. Students who are benignly envious of another student plan to spend more hours on their study, and actually work longer and perform better on an intelligence task]