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Oct 4, 2011 · The decision to forego vengeance is not necessary born of human kindness; on the contrary, the body may have evolved some type of internal scale that weighs the adaptive benefits of revenge against its various costs — from the potential for retaliation to the severance of important relationships.
- Eric Jaffe
- 2011
- What Is Revenge?
- The Science of Revenge
- The Long-Term Effects of Revenge
- What to Do with Revenge
- Healthy Revenge
- A Happy Non-Revenge Ending
Revenge (n): the action of inflicting hurt or harm on someone for an injury or wrong suffered at their hands; the desire to inflict retribution. It’s the juice of so many TV dramas and movie sagas, but should it play an important role in our real lives? I want to explore the dark, secretive and mysterious science and psychology of revenge. As much ...
A group of Swiss researchers wanted to know what happens in the brain when someone reaps revenge. 1. They scanned the brains of people who had just been wronged during a game in the lab. 2. The researchers then gave the wronged participant a chance to punish the other person, and for a full minute as the victim’s contemplated revenge, the activity ...
We often believe that exacting revenge is a form of emotional release and that getting retribution will help us feel better. Movies often portray the act of revenge as a way of gaining closure after a wrong. But in fact, revenge has the opposite effect. Even though the first few moments feel rewarding in the brain, psychological scientists have fou...
Revenge re-opens and aggravates your emotional wounds. Even though you might be tempted to punish a wrong, you end up punishing yourself because you can’t heal. But what do you do if you were wronged? How can you deal with the intense emotional feelings of retribution? What do you do if you feel an intense need for revenge? There is a healthy way t...
Are you ready for it? This one comes from the amazing, prolific, Frank Sinatra. In his words: “The best revenge is massive success.” –Frank Sinatra The next time you feel the dark tendrils of revenge creeping into your soul, I want you to take that intensity and put it towards succeeding. Put it towards your goals. Put it towards hustling to get wh...
As you might have guessed, I did not rain farts upon my competitor’s blog. I did not shoot arrows at his articles. I did not seek retribution. After reading this study, I decided to completely turn away from what he was doing and focus all of my energy into making our blog even better. His content stealing actually gave us one of the best insights ...
Jul 19, 2017 · Is revenge really sweet? And what makes people vengeful? Does playing tit for tat make you feel better? Or not? The science of revenge.
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
Revenge often involves risk, which people have a natural aversion to, and anger is one of the strongest factors that can overcome this aversion. Later, when people get more psychological distance from what happened, that might reduce the anger and the revenge instinct.
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.
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Apr 3, 2017 · Researchers are gradually getting some answers, and they are finding that revenge has some unexpected upsides. People from every society understand the idea of getting angry and wanting to hurt...
