Control And Expression Of Individual Jealousy In Self - Loss State

Envy is usually portrayed as a complex and multifaceted emotion that follows from an upward social comparison and results in a variety of thoughts and feelings, such as a sense of inferiority,discontent and frustration, anger, or even ill will (Miceli & Castelfranchi,2007; Smith & Kim,2007).it has a great influence on human’s personality, emotional, interpersonal relationship and mental health.However, given that the experience of envy ispainful, self-threatening, and met with social disapproval, people typically attempt to control their envious reactions. A difficulty of the research is that participants denies the existence of envy, it is easy to hide.Despite the vast interpersonal, societal, and economical consequences attributed to this potential aspect of envious responding, experimental demonstrations of the affective and behavioral consequences of envy-inducing situations are scarce.envy reaction as a kind of implicit behavior that individuals often control this feelings.The ability to override less desirable drives is dependent on self-control resources,which are limited (Muraven, Tice & Baumeister,1998). According to Baumeister and colleagues’(Baumeister, Bratslavsky, Muraven,& Tice,1998; Baumeister & Heatherton,1996; Baumeister, Vohs,& Tice,2007) Strength Model of Self-control, engaging in acts ofself-control requires drawing on a "reservoir" of self-control, and depletion occurs when a constant demand on self-control resources, such as cognitive and mental resources, temporarily exhausts them leaving individuals less able to regulate.For example,Hofmann and Friese (2008) found that for participants who had consumed alcohol, impulsive reactions (implicit attitudes toward a candy) predicted the amount of candy consumption.In contrast,for sober participants, conscious eating behavior standards predicted how much candy they consumed.Thus, whenever people are exhausted, distracted, intoxicated, or otherwise deprived of their self-regulatory resources, impulses may dictate behavior and successful emotional regulation is less likely. The common element underlying these seemingly disparate factors may be the impairment of executive working memory functions-a precondition for the exertion of self-control (Hofmann et al.,2009). Applying these insights to the phenomenon of envy suggests that envious reactions may surface if self-control resources are impaired.This study designed three experiments based on the former theory to discuss the self-control and expression of envy.experiment 1 discuss the implicit of envy.Pairs of unacquainted participants were invited to participate in a study about "factors that affect product evaluations and taste judgments"without depletion.Set an experimental group(trigger envy emotion) and control group(non-envy emotion), from two aspects of direct and indirect measuring the degree of participants’envious.we found that two groups’ envy is not significant difference.Having established that spontaneous negative social comparisons lead to envious reactions under conditions that foster disinhibited responses, Experiment 2and Experiment 3 explored whether an envy inducing situation heightens the inclination to acquire the superior good. If becoming aware of a better-off other increases the valuation of the envied good, people should be willing to spend more money for the superior good, especially, when they are not able to control their envious reaction.We invited 190 participants of Shaanxi normal university to perform taste judgments in the laboratory.in a 3(partner:better-off vs. equal vs. worse-off) x 2 (self-depletion:depletion vs. non-depletion)Between subject design,To explore the expression of envy emotion.The results showed that:under the condition of self-depletion, participants in the better-off partners show more envious than equal and worse-off partner,and they pay the good more.envy play a mediation role between partner types and willingness to pay.