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Schadenfreude: Why do we feel joy at another's pain?

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Cultural historian and author Tiffany Watt Smith says we shouldn't feel ashamed to feel a sense of schadenfreude.
Published on 4 January 2019
Tiffany Watt Smith on Radio 3's Free Thinking

Schadenfreude: Why do we feel joy at another's pain?

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