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Resentment, envy, schadenfreude, and sympathy: Effects of own and other's deserved or undeserved status

NT Feather School of Psychology, Flinders University , GPO, Box 2100, Adelaide, 5001, Australia, ,
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Katherine Nairn Flinders University , Adelaide, Australia
Pages 87-102 | Published online: 08 Nov 2010

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