title: Revenge: behavioral and emotional consequences.
abstract: This commentary discusses dozens of ecologically powerful social-psychological experiments from the1960s and 1970s, which are highly relevant especially for predicting the consequences of revenge. McCullough et al. omitted this work – perhaps because of its misclassification as “catharsis” research. The findings are readily accommodated by Konecˇ ni’s anger-aggression bidirectional-causation (AABC) model and can be usefully incorporated in an adaptationist view of revenge.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0109, USA. vkonecni@ucsd.edu
authors.forename: Vladimir J
authors.initials: VJ
authors.lastname: Konečni
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000374:Aggression / Q000523:psychology*; D003071:Cognition; D061347:Forgiveness; D006801:Humans; D009042:Motivation