Greed Emotion
A Greed Emotion is an ambitiousness emotion that takes a selfish position (discounts harm to others).
- AKA: Avarice, Cupidity, Covetousness.
- Context:
- It can (typically) be experienced by a Greedy Agent as a State of Greed, with a capacity for greed (such as a wealth addict).
- It can (typically) be considered a Negative Emotion.
- It can lead to a Greedy Decision (and a greedy act).
- It can range from being a Crave Emotion to being a Rapacity Emotion.
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- Example(s):
- a person who fails a test where the other person determines if the amount shared is equitable.
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- Counter-Example(s):
- an Envy Emotion, like a Jealousy Emotion.
- a Narcissism Emotion.
- a Vanity Emotion (of a narcissist).
- a Love Emotion.
- See: Social Status, Self-Righteousness, Popularity, Ownership, Property, Tyranny, Leverage (Negotiation).
References
2016
- https://hbr.org/2016/12/make-peace-with-your-unlived-life
- QUOTE: The idea of a “true self” and a “false” or “shadow” self has long preoccupied psychologists. For example, Carl Jung introduced the notion of the shadow side of our personality. He viewed “the shadow” as our unknown, dark side — made up of the primitive, negative, socially depreciated human emotions such as sexuality, striving for power, selfishness, greed, envy, jealousy, and anger. But although the shadow personifies everything that we fear, and therefore refuse to acknowledge, it remains a part of us. Jung believed that unless we come to terms with our shadow side, we are condemned to become its unwitting victim.
2014
- (Wikipedia, 2014) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/greed Retrieved:2014-1-21.
- Greed, also known as avarice, cupidity or covetousness, is the inordinate desire to possess wealth, goods, or objects of abstract value with the intention to keep it for one's self, far beyond the dictates of basic survival and comfort. It is applied to a markedly high desire for and pursuit of wealth, status, and power.
As a secular psychological concept, greed is, similarly, an inordinate desire to acquire or possess more than one needs. The degree of inordinance is related to the inability to control the reformulation of "wants" once desired "needs" are eliminated. Erich Fromm described greed as "a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction." It is typically used to criticize those who seek excessive material wealth, although it may apply to the need to feel more excessively moral, social, or otherwise better than someone else.
The purpose for greed, and any actions associated with it, is possibly to deprive others of potential means (perhaps, of basic survival and comfort) or future opportunities accordingly, or to obstruct them therefrom, as a measure of enhanced discretion via majority belongings-having and majority competitive advantage, thus insidious and tyrannical or otherwise having negative connotation. Alternately, the purpose could be defense or counteraction from such dangerous, potential leverage in matters of questionable agreeability. A consequence of greedy activity may be inability to sustain any of the costs or burdens associated with that which has been or is being accumulated, leading to a backfire or destruction, whether of self or more generally. So, the level of "inordinance" of greed pertains to the amount of vanity, malice or burden associated with it.
- Greed, also known as avarice, cupidity or covetousness, is the inordinate desire to possess wealth, goods, or objects of abstract value with the intention to keep it for one's self, far beyond the dictates of basic survival and comfort. It is applied to a markedly high desire for and pursuit of wealth, status, and power.