Compassion decreased feelings of schadenfreude toward the disliked person
Two 2*2*3 repeated-measures ANCOVAs and planned contrasts were run to analyze the effects of the trainings on compassion feelings (manipulation check) and schadenfreude feelings in response to the misfortune scenarios. These latter analyses comprised a between-subjects factor condition (compassion, reappraisal, Italian training), two covariates (audio recording practice and informal practice), and two within-subjects factors: time (pre-training, post-training) and target person (disliked person, neutral person).For compassion feelings, the repeated-measures ANCOVA indicated a main effect of the target person, suggesting that participants felt less compassion toward the disliked person than the neutral person, We then ran similar analysis with schadenfreude feelings as a dependent variable. The repeated-measures ANCOVA yielded a main effect of target person, Self-reports of schadenfreude feelings at pre- and post-training toward the disliked person as a function of condition (compassion, reappraisal, Italian). Errors bars indicate ± 1 