Envy

What it is

Resentment at others' advantages, which makes us judge by comparison and sometimes harm our own interests to reduce theirs.

Related

• Disliking/hating tendency bias
  Envy turns into dislike of those who have more.
• Hedonic treadmill bias
  Adapting to what we have makes us look at what others have.
• Social comparison bias bias
  Envy is the emotion that social comparison produces.
• Kantian fairness tendency bias
  Perceived unfairness and envy both react to what others get relative to us.

Appears in

• Munger's 25 standard causes of human misjudgment#8: Envy/jealousy tendency
• The 99 thinking errors in Rolf Dobelli's The Art of Thinking Clearly#86: Envy

References

• Wikipedia: Envy en.wikipedia.org
• Munger's 25 standard causes of human misjudgment fs.blog
• The 99 thinking errors in Rolf Dobelli's The Art of Thinking Clearly en.wikipedia.org
• Wikipedia: List of cognitive biases en.wikipedia.org
• Wikipedia: Cognitive bias codex en.wikipedia.org

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