When it comes to feeling jealous timing could make all the difference. New research has 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 said study co-author Ed O'Brien Associate Professor at the University of Chicago in the US. Envy is an interesting emotion because it can motivate negative outcomes such as self-dislike and also positive outcomes such as feeling inspired. For the study published in the journal Psychological Science the researchers conducted three experiments. In