Are different countries equally green with envy? A comparison of the everyday concept of envy in the United States, Spain, and Germany

Using a prototype approach to emotion concepts, we mapped the internal structure and content of the everyday concept ofenvy(as used in the UnitedStates) and its translation equivalents ofenvidiain Spanish and Neid in German. In Study 1 (totalN=415), the features of the concept of envy, envidia, and...

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Autores: Schweiger Gallo, Inge, Görke, Lucia, Alonso García, Miguel Aurelio, Herrero López, Reyes, Gollwitzer, Peter
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Institución:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositorio:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/91686
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/91686
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Envy
Internal structure
Network analyses
Everyday emotion concept
Prototype approach
Psicología social (Sociología)
6302.02 Psicología social
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Sumario:Using a prototype approach to emotion concepts, we mapped the internal structure and content of the everyday concept ofenvy(as used in the UnitedStates) and its translation equivalents ofenvidiain Spanish and Neid in German. In Study 1 (totalN=415), the features of the concept of envy, envidia, and Neid were generated via an open-ended questionnaire. In Study 2 (totalN=404), participants rated the degree of typicality of the constitutive features on a forced-choice questionnaire. The prototype analysis of envy, supplemented with network analyses, revealed that the largest connected set of features of envy, envidia, and Neid shared a group of central features, including features related to success or to people with a better appearance. Still, envy, envidia, and Neid did differ with respect to their constituent peripheral features as well as the density of their networks, their structure, and the betweenness centrality of the nodes. These results suggest that a prototype approach combined with network analysis is a convenient approach for studying the internal structure of everyday emotion concepts and the degree of overlap with respect to the translation equivalents in different countries