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- Revenge is an act of vindictiveness; justice, of vindication. The intense effort to avenge oneself or others can easily become corrupting, morally reducing the avenger’s status to that of the perpetrator.
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Oct 4, 2011 · They argue that individual acts of vengeance serve as group announcements that certain behaviors will elicit retaliation. In other words, the purpose of revenge might be less about responding to one particular offense than about preventing several others.
- Eric Jaffe
- 2011
Jul 19, 2017 · As Katrina Schumann and Michael Ross point out, revenge is an action provoked by a wrong, unlike other forms of aggression that require no provocation.
Jul 6, 2020 · In this essay, we discuss two parallel approaches to conceptualizing and studying revenge—one characteristic of most psychological research on the topic and one rooted in communication theory—and outline several advantages to integrating them.
- Susan D. Boon, Stephen M. Yoshimura
- 06 July 2020
- 3
- 14, Issue9
Vengeance seems interpersonally destructive and antithetical to many of the most basic human instincts. However, an emerging body of social scientific research has begun to illustrate a logic to revenge, demonstrating why revenge evolved in humans and when and how people take revenge.
Behavioral scientists have observed that instead of quenching hostility, revenge can prolong the unpleasantness of the original offense and that merely bringing harm upon an offender is not enough to satisfy a person’s vengeful spirit.
Jan 16, 2014 · This article presents a psychological analysis of the phenomenon of revenge and differentiates between reality (the unchangeable past) and the intrapersonal experience (the restored psychological balance) with regard to the reason why people take revenge.
Dec 1, 2010 · We highlight four factors that influence whether victims of injustice choose to take revenge: the persistence of anger, perceptions of the costs of revenge, cultural and religious values regarding revenge, and the presence of external systems that can restore justice on behalf of victims.
