title: Revenge: an adaptive system for maximizing fitness, or a proximate calculation arising from personality and social-psychological processes?
abstract: Revenge appears among a “suite” of social interactions that includes competition, alliance building (a prerequisite for tribal revenge raids), and so forth. Rather than a modular “system” directly reflecting evolutionary fitness constraints, revenge may be (another) social cost-benefit calculation involving potential or actual aggression and proximately controlled by individual personality characteristics and beliefs that can work against fitness.
authors.affiliation: Division of Pediatric Clinical Neuroscience, Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA. poteg001@umn.edu
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Potegal
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000374:Aggression / Q000523:psychology*; D003071:Cognition; D061347:Forgiveness; D006801:Humans; D009042:Motivation