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Schadenfreude (/ ˈ ʃ ɑː d ən f r ɔɪ d ə /; German: [ˈʃaːdn̩ˌfʁɔʏ̯də] ⓘ; lit. Tooltip literal translation "harm-joy") is the experience of pleasure, joy, or self-satisfaction that comes from learning of or witnessing the troubles, failures, pain, suffering, or humiliation of another.
A 1976 edition of the journal Ekistics used the phrase in the context of bureaucratic inaction on low-income housing, describing "the principle of somebody else's problem" as something that prevented progress. Where responsibility for a complex problem falls across many different departments of government, even those agencies who wish to tackle ...
A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.
The researchers concluded that the decreased likelihood of a particular person helping was offset by the increased likelihood that at least someone would help. Findings were consistent with other studies that showed lower rates of bystander apathy when the situation was a dangerous emergency.
Psychological projection is a defence mechanism of alterity concerning "inside" content mistaken to be coming from the "outside" Other. [1] It forms the basis of empathy by the projection of personal experiences to understand someone else's subjective world. [1]
Individuals who are assigned easy tasks are more like to assign someone else to an easy tasks. [27] Finally, drivers who experience that others are insisting on their right of way are more likely to insist on their right of way. [28] Two explanations for the observed paying-it-forward have been considered.
Someone Else may refer to: Someone Else, a 2006 British film; Someone Else, a 2004 album by Ira Losco; Songs "Someone Else" (song), by Duncan Laurence, 2020 " ...
When a solution has been presented in a discussion, most notably at deletion discussions, the "Somebody Else's Problem"-effect may occur. If this happens, it does harm to the encyclopedia we are trying to build without anyone actually wanting it. People just assume that someone else will do what they realize has to be done.