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Revenge can be more fully understood by making distinctions between anger and hatred

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2012

Aaron N. Sell
Aaron N. Sell*
Affiliation:
School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Mt. Gravatt Campus, Griffith University, Mount Gravatt, QLD 4122, Australia. sell@psych.ucsb.edu
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Abstract

McCullough et al. present a compelling case that anger-based revenge is designed to disincentivize the target from imposing costs on the vengeful individual. Here I present a contrast between revenge motivated by anger (as discussed in the target article) and revenge motivated by hatred, which remains largely unexplored in the literature.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 36 , Issue 1 , February 2013 , pp. 36 - 37
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013

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