People are nicer to you 'if they think you are jealous of them

By Daily Mail Reporter

Successful people are nicer to those who are jealous of them, psychologists have found. The fear that they may become the target of malicious envy makes people act more helpfully toward people who they think might be jealous of them. Previous research found jealousy could be divided into benign and malicious envy.
Those with benign envy were motivated to improve themselves, to do better so they could be more like the person they envied.

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