We report results from a multi-period game designed to stimulate feelings of envy. There are a number of important … features of our game that distinguish it from previous games used to examine envy. A unique and important feature of our design … is that it addresses the two negative effects of envy: the wasteful expenditure of resources in an attempt to harm others …

wealth, predict that the poor envy the rich. Reference Group Theory predicts that the poor (rich) envy others from the same … social group or class. We report results from a game designed to stimulate feelings of envy. Players are defined both by ….e. their reference groups). We find that, while across class envy is common; within class envy motivates the most anti …