Does human misfortune taste like honey? thesis of

Yesterday, the director of Kakunodate Animal Hospital called me and sent me an interesting PDF via email, asking me to read it.

It seems to be a paper about "human misfortune tastes like honey" in the previous article "Taste of Honey".

It's true that people's misfortunes are related to the taste of honey, but to be honest, it's quite difficult for an incompetent person like me.
However, when I read it, I was convinced that it had the same ideas that I had in mind.

Although nothing has been written about the instinctual feelings of the natural world, it seems that humans have a jealous feeling that makes them happy at the misfortunes of others. Moreover, this feeling of jealousy seemed to be a physical pain, and I was surprised.

Could it be that jealousy is an emotion used to distract from physical pain?
Since I'm ignorant, I can't make such a far-fetched comment, so anyway, there was a paper about how people's misfortune tastes like honey.

What I noticed after reading this.
If you have a relaxed or average education as a child, you will not experience feelings of failure or inferiority, and if you experience it for the first time as an adult, you will end up using unproductive or destructive methods of resolving your pain. I'm worried.

I certainly think that experiences such as feelings of inferiority and failure should be experienced as early as possible during childhood.
I know this because I have experienced it myself, and the more you proceed without knowing about this experience, the more backlash you will experience.

However, you may think that it doesn't happen because you won't know how such feelings change from person to person unless you actually experience them. If you are interested in this kind of paper, please read it.


"The neural basis of envy and the emotion of delighting in the misfortune of others" by Hidehiko Takahashi
PDFURL：https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jsbpjjpp/22/1/22_51/_pdf