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You Love It When People Fail – Here’s Why

When that jerk at work spills coffee all over his shirt, we laugh, right? Turns out that’s a natural – and common – response. Tiffany Watt Smith joins us to talk about why we find perverse pleasure in the pain of others. Her new book is called “Schadenfreude: The Joy Of Another’s Misfortune” (Little, Brown Spark).