Jealousy is an unwanted emotion that negatively affects our lives, but sometimes we cannot prevent it. Most of us can experience this feeling at some time in life.
Feelings of jealousy can arise for many reasons. One of them is "competition". Have you ever thought why you don't feel the same degree of jealousy for a celebrity as you do for a friend at your workplace? Because we can actually feel this feeling more towards the people we compete with. You will never be jealous of a person if you do not think that he is a strong opponent and you do not question your own abilities to defeat him.
So is there any behavior that can resist jealousy? There is such a behavior, according to a new study; the more generous people are better protected from jealousy.
People who are givers to other people are also less jealous of what others have, so being givers can help generous people cope with the depressive side of seeing what others are better than them.
These results came from a study that investigated how people's happiness varies according to their own and the fortunes of others.
Researchers developed an equation to predict people's happiness. Our equation can predict how happy people are not only based on their own experiences but also on what other people around them experience. On average we are less happy when other people get more or less of us; Of course, this is a situation that can vary from person to person.
Interestingly, this equation allows us to predict how generous one person would be in a different scenario where they were asked how they could share a small amount of money with another person. We can guess which individuals are altruistic based on how inequality affects their happiness.
The study included a series of games in which people gamble and had a chance to share their winnings with others.
Whether we are generous to strangers or not is related to how our happiness is affected by the inequalities we experience in our daily lives. Those who gave half their money when given the opportunity felt no jealousy but felt guilt when faced with inequality in another assignment.
On the contrary, those who kept all the money for themselves showed no sign of guilt, but they were very jealous. In other words, being generous is beneficial for you because generosity controls jealousy; It makes you not jealous when you see that others have more.
Finally, the essential qualities for being sensitive are being very understanding and trying to do whatever you can. A sensitive partner; show understanding towards the other rather than denying or ignoring their problems.
