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Radio 4,6 mins

Why schadenfreude is good for you

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Claudia Hammond discusses schadenfreude with historian of emotions, Tiffany Watt-Smith and psychologist, Wilco Van Dijk from the University of Leiden. First broadcast on All in the Mind, 5 December 2018.

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