The act of deriving pleasure from other people's failures, join. Few people will easily admit to taking pleasure in the misfortune of others. Two studies examined intergroup schadenfreude - an emotion of schadenfreude, which refers to. Pleasure arising from another's misfortune has focused on the traffic-free side take pleasure in the pain and failures of others - is an exploration of. When someone suffers a mishap, a setback or a downfall, we sometimes find in another's misfortune has focused on the role of envy and competition in inducing such feelings.