Citation

Stoddard J. J. Am. Acad. Child Adolesc. Psychiatry 2023; ePub(ePub): ePub.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2023, American Academy of Child Adolescent Psychiatry, Publisher Lippincott Williams and Wilkins)

DOI

10.1016/j.jaac.2023.03.004

PMID

36905981

Abstract

"Not fair!" is a call to action regularly heard by parents and mental health professionals. It's well known that a person's perception of fairness might provoke them to anger and aggression. 1
Beyond common experience, all sorts of experiments involving people's responses to rigged, interactive games have proved the point. Indeed, it's not just people, Dr. Frans de Waal charmed the world with a TED talk in which monkeys took umbrage and aggressed in response to unfairness. 2
Knowing this, Mathur and colleagues 3
used unfairness and retaliation to illuminate the complex neural circuity of aggression in adolescents.

Language: en