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“How poor are the people who are now happy and joking that Trump has a Crown.” A Twitter user sparked a big discussion with this tweet. Shortly after it became known that the President of the United States was infected, a lot of malice was shed on the man who had often downplayed and downplayed the virus. One responds: “Can I be happy that you have it and at the same time wish you a smooth course without permanent damage?”
Psychologist Lea Boecker from Leuphana University in Lüneburg told the dpa that, first of all, one feels “more malicious pleasure when misfortune befalls a person who is perceived as superior.” This is especially true when this person has achieved their high status “through dominance and intimidation.” Second, it is relevant to Schadenfreude whether the person in question “deserved misfortune because before she was arrogant or ignorant.” And thirdly, “whether I like the person or not” is also decisive.
Boecker’s conclusion: “If these three factors play together, (…) then, of course, schadenfreude is particularly strong.” Schadenfreude has a bad reputation, but research shows that this feeling “satisfies important psychological needs,” for example, justice. The more extreme the other’s mishap or misfortune, the more people tend to “feel more pity than malicious joy.”
Schadenfreude is inherent to the human being
More or less secret jubilation because a skeptic of the crown like the president of the United States, Donald Trump, has contracted the virus himself, is that possible? Cultural scientist Rainer Stollmann from the University of Bremen is not too surprised by such sentiments, because malicious pleasure is inherent in human beings, as “an almost human reaction to previous atrocities.”
The professor of cultural history and theories of cultural processes, who wrote his 1995 habilitation on “The Nature and Culture of Laughter,” told the German press agency about the jubilation at Trump’s Covid-19 disease: ” In this case, she will probably hit him too. Right. (…) It’s like the virus was playing a prank on the president. He denied it for a long time, he doesn’t want to know, and then of all the people it hits him. It’s like balancing Justice “. (SDA / neo)
