How to pronounce “schadenfreude” in English

Something else is kind of taking over in a way.because we feel schadenfreude.

can search in Google Books to see the frequency of word usage. And I don't remember which of my books it's in but I wrote aboutñ excuse me ñ schadenfreude and I used Google Ngramto track the rise in the use of the word 'schadenfreude' over time. It was amazing. It would have been impossible before Google Ngram released. At least for someone who isn't in academia wouldhave been impossible. And also there's something people talk about. ìJohnny graduated college.î

I'm gonna go through by the way a number of examples here. It's fascinating to get into some of the detail, but I'm gonna keep us moving along.Here's another slide that looks at envy and schadenfreude. This is a study done in Japan with college students who were told about someone very much like them who was spectacularlymore successful. And in the scanner what arose inside them were activations in the physical pain network,

they think, oh, I'm going to find the area of the brain that's involved in this or this.Oh, this is the area that's involved in generosity, and this is involved in schadenfreude or whatever.But in fact, it's nothing like that.

Something else is kind of taking over in a way.And I think what this reflects is a cognitive conceptual gap in the English language, so in the same way that we adopted the words schadenfreude from German

world right now. So you give me wonderful fodder for my podcast and my e-mail newsletter and then your tools are so useful. I use Google Ngram which youcan search in Google Books to see the frequency of word usage. And I don't remember which of my books it's in but I wrote aboutñ excuse me ñ schadenfreude and I used Google Ngramto track the rise in the use of the word 'schadenfreude' over time. It was amazing. It would have been impossible before Google Ngram released. At least for someone who isn't in academia would

So, in phase one, they told these students that there is this spectacularly wonderful person who made them really look horrible; envy, physical pain.And then in phase two of the study they were told that this person encountered a humiliating downfall, schadenfreude, pleasure at the suffering of others and the pleasure network was activated.As you can see an example in this study.