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THE PRATFALL INSTITUTE I m not proud to admit this, but I love fail videos. You know, the ones where someone falls down on a patch of ice holding a birthday cake or manages to inadvertently do a double backflip with a quarter rotation off a trampoline and into some bushes.
Stop judging me, I said I m not proud of it.
Turns out there is a word for why we laugh at these things, and that word is schadenfreude. There is part of our brain that gets turned on when we are rewarded at someone else s expense, explains Dr. Joseph A. Shrand in Psychology Today. Schadenfreude is when we laugh at someone else s misfortune. Schadenfreude comes from the two German words, Schaden and Freude, harm and joy. We ve all done it, even if we are not proud of it.