Hill and Buss cite research showing that humans respond to envy with either submission, ambition or destruction.
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Although there are some disturbing signs of social deterioration (see article), Europeans and Americans can still find much to envy there.
However, most Americans are not moved by the appeal to envy.
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David, the younger by three years, speaks unashamedly of his struggle to keep up with the high-achieving James, his emotions swinging from pride and love to envy and hate.
In all that information you're posting about your life your vacation, your kids, your promotions at work, even that margarita you just drank someone is bound to find something to envy.
The new Star treats celebrities as people to envy (better clothes, better dates, better sex and, inevitably, better body parts) but also, if captured from a slightly different angle, as people who are just as wretched as you.
To dampen the ill-will that arises when regular faculty began to envy the student-free lives of the academic heroes the wealthier universities have consistently moved toward across-the-board reductions in teaching loads, with not-so-wealthy schools imitating this trend as best they can.
It is with this New Yorker attitude that I approached my first trip to LA. I grew exasperated at the endless driving, pretended not to envy the unwavering 70 degree weather and one night in Hollywood I purposely snubbed John Cho (co-star of Harold and Kumar go to White Castle), when I nearly bowled him over on my way to the bar.
Those primed to feel envy were more attentive to the interview participants than were those not primed for envy.
Lord help us to turn from callousness to sensitivity, from hostility to love, from pettiness to purpose, from envy to contentment, from carelessness to discipline, from fear to faith.
In the research, one group of subjects was primed to feel envy by writing about their own prior experiences of feeling envious.
Its elderly may be growing in number but, to the envy of other developed countries, America also has a burgeoning young population.
It takes an enormous amount of security, courage, and self respect to show vulnerability, to share credit, and to transcend envy and jealousy.
The photographers, Paul Saltzman and Elliott Landy, were given unimpeded access to the two legendary rock acts - to the envy of the world's press.
Likewise for us, not all of us can achieve the great heights of glory and professional success that we look to with envy in others.
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This suggestion comes from Texan Greg Kagay, the securities analyst who left New York last decade to set up shop in the Texas Hill Country, to the envy of his friends.
The headlines provide a steady diet of both systemic concerns and short-term hiccups, all of which the GDP machine could seem to care less about, chugging along to the envy of the world.
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Americans may not be as worried as Britons about the legality of the war, but the House of Commons is likely to watch with envy their representatives' ability to hold the executive to account.
Wanting to get rid of envy can motivate ambition and success, as well as darker actions designed to harm or destroy the person motivating the envy.
Most women who are good at networking are attracted to those we envy, not in the green kinda way, but in an I have to know more about you kinda way.
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The Nigerian head of the local organising committee, Bishop Joseph Olanrewaju Obembe, accused other Nigerian Pentecostal preachers of sabotaging the crusade and peddling false information to Hinn and his aides out of envy, and to discredit him.
There is nothing just about plying envy to swap goodies for votes for which others must pay.
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As shocking as this set of choices and values might be to people who envy wealth and influence, Pastor Rick makes his purpose evident.
This has nothing to do with envy.
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But what makes America great, what continues to make America the envy of our competitors, what makes this a place where people come not just to invest but to start lives and businesses and families, is something that has been inexorable and enduring, especially in times of great challenge and great change.
RAC's vulgar squabbles are bound to be accompanied by a dash of envy that its members now seem about to vote themselves a large wad of money.
The case for class warfare boils down to nothing more than envy and resentment.
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The little green devil of envy seems to have clouded the good Rev's judgment.
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