Citation

Konecni VJ. Behav. Brain Sci. 2013; 36(1): 25-26.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0109. vkonecni@ucsd.edu http://www.psychology.ucsd.edu/people/faculty pages/vkonecni.html.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2013, Cambridge University Press)

DOI

10.1017/S0140525X12000404

PMID

23211437

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 Konečni's anger-aggression bidirectional-causation (AABC) model and can be usefully incorporated in an adaptationist view of revenge.

Language: en