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Understanding Envy in Student Life

This document discusses how envy and jealousy can impact human behavior and decision-making. It explains that people experience jealousy out of a fear of losing or not being good enough. An individual's self-perception is heavily influenced by social comparisons, which can lead to envy and negatively impact their self-image. The document provides an example of how fear of missing out can drive irrational behavior in students waiting in long lines for pizza. It also discusses Rafael Nadal's view that personal achievements and goals should not depend on comparisons to others.

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Understanding Envy in Student Life

This document discusses how envy and jealousy can impact human behavior and decision-making. It explains that people experience jealousy out of a fear of losing or not being good enough. An individual's self-perception is heavily influenced by social comparisons, which can lead to envy and negatively impact their self-image. The document provides an example of how fear of missing out can drive irrational behavior in students waiting in long lines for pizza. It also discusses Rafael Nadal's view that personal achievements and goals should not depend on comparisons to others.

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Week 4 Assignment

Bias from Envy and Jealous

In order to understand human behaviour, it is essential to understand how jealousy and envy impact
life and decisions. We are jealous out of fear, fear of losing, fear of not being good enough. A
person's experience of this emotion can change the story of a relationship in a completely new way.
Therefore, he or she cannot distinguish between protecting someone and being unreasonable.
Negative emotions and behaviours are typically displayed by the individual in reaction to their
significant other.

An individual's self-perception is heavily influenced by social comparisons, which is a major cause of


envy. There is no way to tell whether someone is good or bad at something without social
comparison. Comparisons determine how we measure ourselves. However, envy can adversely
impact the individual's self-image and subsume the comparison. Thus, people are immediately aware
of their shortcomings by feeling inferior from social comparison.

As explained in the class we envy those who are near us in time, place or age. One of the best
situation I can think of is from our cafeteria scenes whenever continental canteen has pizza in its
menu. So as we all know that usual timing for lunch is 12:15 but whenever we have pizza in our
menu the line for the food starts before 12:00. Strangely what I have noticed is as people in the
campus have increased so the time for the line is also shifting, I remember this week itself I went
around 11.50 students were already present. Also, someone or the other exaggerates the situation
by posting a picture in the whatsapp group which creates FOMO (fear of missing out) and people
tend to come not because they like pizza rather because of the hype that has been created about the
same. Many a times I have noticed the same people who took pizza would eventually insult the same
food as in pizza base is to hard, its not baked properly, no vegetables available. Additionally, the
normal canteen also possess decent menu but fear that everyone is eating pizza how can I miss the
same drives our rational thinking and even though queue is so long, students fight as in when
someone brings their friend in the queue but very few people would go to normal cafeteria.

Apart from this sir explained if we are able to achieve the goals it shouldn’t matter if someone else
does better. Since am a huge Rafael Nadal fun and was watching one of his interview post his
Australian Open 2022 triumph. The interviewer asked him like now that he has won 21 slams which
takes him ahead of his rivals Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic how does it feels to stand ahead of
them. Nadal beautifully explained him that number of slams didn’t matter much by quoting the
reference that if someone else has a bigger house or a bigger tv that’s totally upon him and his
efforts and he can’t complain for it. His aim in life is enjoying tennis and in this pandemic where
entire world have lost many people he feels fortunate enough to be in the court even after facing
some serious injuries which totally resonates the fact that our efforts must be aligned with our goals
and should be independent of external constructs or factors or to say other individuals or any kind of
dependencies must not be the driver for achieving our goals.

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