Envy: Theory and Research

Book Overview

For centuries, scholars have argued that envy is the source of much aggressive behavior as well as the root cause of much unhappiness, but it is only recently that there have been attempts to examine the emotion from an empirical perspective. This book is the first of its kind to offer a comprehensive summary of current theoretical and empirical work on envy provided by scholars from a range of disciplines.

The first section of the book focuses...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195327950
• ISBN13: 9780195327953
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.3"