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. The German word was used in an ad campaign for Volkswagen in 1990. It meant “driving enjoyment.” See
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24
. I rank his memoir,
The Doctor and the Damned
, as one of the most remarkable books that I have ever read. If I had unlimited funds, I would produce a 30-part television drama on it and include every detail. I appreciate, for example, the frank accounts of his feelings throughout.

25
. Haas (1984), p. 284.

26
. Ibid. I should note that other parts of his memoir suggest that Haas was not a vindictive man. Quite the opposite. He was fair-minded and compassionate—and resourceful. He was a survivor.

27
. Manning, M. (2011),
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28
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29
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30
. “I'm doing this because I have to do it. … I am not motivated by a sense of revenge. Perhaps I was for a short time in the very beginning. … Even before I had had time to really think things through, I realized we must not forget. If all of us forgot, the same thing might happen again, in 20 or 50 or 100 years”;
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31
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32
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34
. Haas (1984), p. 291.

35
. Ibid.

36
. Ibid.

37
. McCullough (2008).

38
. Murphy, J. G. (2003),
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39
. Murphy, J. G. (2002), Vengeance, justice and forgiveness,
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,
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:
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44
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45
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46
. See, for example, Lotto, D. (2006). The psychohistory of vengeance,
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47
. King James Bible, Paul's letter to the Romans 12:19.

48
. Carlsmith, K. M., Wilson, T. D., & Gilbert, D. T. (2008), The paradoxical consequences of revenge,
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49
. Ibid., p. 1324.

50
. This fits with other empirical work showing that rumination about prior mistreatment from others tends to prolong and aggravate negative feelings. When people ruminate about their mistreatment, they get more angry and remain angry longer; Mor, N., & Winquist, J. (2002), Self-focused attention and negative affect: A meta-analysis,
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638–662. When people ruminate about someone who has harmed them, they become more aggressive than when they distract themselves; Rusting, C. L., & Nolen-Hoeksema, S. (1998), Regulating responses to anger: Effects of rumination and distraction on angry mood,
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51
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52
. Ben-Ze'ev (2000). I largely agree with scholars such as Aaron Ben-Ze'ev who emphasize that
schadenfreude
proper is passive. If we take an active role in someone else's misfortune, something more complex is occurring. However, I would not make such a hard-and-fast distinction. Action complicates the picture, but in my view does not remove all traces of
schadenfreude
.

53
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54
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, New York: W. H. Freeman. Sadism involves delight in cruelty, especially excessive cruelty. It doesn't imply other motives aside from the pleasure in the cruelty. Also, it is generally active rather than passive. Sadistic people hurt others and enjoy inflicting the harm. The line between extreme forms of
schadenfreude
and sadism, as I conceive the two, is blurry. People could feel
schadenfreude
because they perceive that a suffering person deserves to suffer. A witness to this pleasure might find it sadistic because he or she does not think the suffering deserved. When
schadenfreude
is active, its overlap with sadism is most difficult to delineate because its active features link it closely with the raw enjoyment of cruelty rather than with other motives, such as deservingness.

55
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32
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