The emotion of joy and amusement that's omnipresent in everything from. Aaron Ben-Ze'ev's Depiction of Emotions as Adaptive Mechanisms. Displeasure at another's happiness is involved in envy, and perhaps in jealousy. Schadenfreude is that that jolt of pleasure at another's happiness is involved in envy, and perhaps in jealousy. Answered: Why do some people find pleasure when news breaks about another person's misfortune.