The psychologist confirms: Your relatives are more jealous than those who do not know

Modern psychology has a clear explanation for this phenomenon: Family members often react more negatively to a member's success than do outsiders. This effect is known as intra-family rivalry, a concept studied for decades in social psychology and neuropsycology.

The theory of social comparison (Festinger) explains that people are constantly likened to those who are more like him, and no one is more like brother, sister, cousin, or relative. When a person within the family achieves something, the brain of others activates self - esteem, comparison, and often the lymphical system, which relates to primitive emotional reactions such as jealousy and fear.

Studies show that the closer one gets emotionally, the stronger the impact of his success on the other. This is not hate. It's pure biologist. Your brain experiences your success as a risk to status, role and balance within the family system.

This phenomenon is more pronounced in cultures like ours, where the family has high expectations, rigid roles, and strong feelings of comparison. Psychologists call this “the silent conflict of family”, where one member's joy turns into anxiety for another, not because of hatred, but because of the way our brains understand hierarchy.

In many cases, outsiders view your success only as information as compared. And comparison often brings pain.

That is why, often, the human success is celebrated more outside the house than inside./Periscopi/