"If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me." –Alice Roosevelt Longworth Almost everyone knows the feeling: A friend or colleague has been promoted, has had some ...

In my last post, I discussed the sex-specific ways by which men and women experience sexual versus emotional infidelity. This approach led my colleague and former doctoral student Tripat Gill and me ...

Nearly 3 in 5 Americans have felt envious of someone else's financial situation, and 65% believe social media has increased overspending. Money jealousy is a common struggle: Nearly 3 in 5 Americans ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s perfectly natural to compare ourselves to others—and feel a twinge of envy when we fear we’re falling short. Far from the sin ...

In the 13th canto of “Purgatorio” in Dante’s Divine Comedy, the 14th-century Italian poet describes the ultimate punishment of people who in life had fallen prey to envy, one of the seven deadly sins.

Jealousy is an inevitable human experience. Actors certainly experience ebbs and flows of jealousy and envy throughout their careers. Jealousy is the fear that something you have will be taken away, ...

In recent months, mental health experts have been drawing attention to what they’ve dubbed “quarantine envy.” Many people, they note, have been sizing up the extent to which they’ve been affected by ...