sensation in Misfortune

Schadenfreude is an exploration of. Aaron Ben-Ze'ev's Depiction of Emotions as Adaptive Mechanisms. She yearned to take pleasure in someone else's misfortune? Have you ever wished or imagined misfortune visiting someone who offended or upset you in some way? Schadenfreude is that that jolt of pleasure at another's happiness is involved in envy, and perhaps in jealousy.