We are more envious of things that haven't happened yet, suggests a new study (n=4,978), which found that we are more envious of someone else's covetable experience before it happens than after it has passed. Enviable events lose some power over us once those events are in our past.

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We are more envious of things that haven't happened yet, suggests a new study (n=4,978), which found that we are more envious of someone else's covetable experience before it happens than after it has passed. Enviable events lose some power over us once those events are in our past.