title: Pathways to abnormal revenge and forgiveness.
abstract: The target article’s important point is easily misunderstood to claim that all revenge is adaptive. Revenge and forgiveness can overstretch (or understretch) the bounds of utility due to misperceptions, minimization of costly errors, a breakdown within our evolved revenge systems, or natural genetic and developmental variation. Together, these factors can compound to produce highly abnormal instances of revenge and forgiveness.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1, Canada. barclayp@uoguelph.ca
authors.forename: Pat
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Barclay
mesh_terms: D002755:Choice Behavior; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008393:Marriage; D009014:Morals; D012747:Sexual Partners