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Affective antecedents of revenge

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2012

Kieran O'Connor  and
Gabrielle S. Adams
Kieran O'Connor
Affiliation:
Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305koconnor@stanford.edu
Gabrielle S. Adams
Affiliation:
Organisational Behaviour, London School of Business, London NW1 4SA, United Kingdom. gadams@london.eduhttp://www.london.edu/facultyandresearch/faculty/search.do?uid=gadams
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Abstract

We propose that revenge responses are often influenced more by affective reactions than by deliberate decision making as McCullough et al. suggest. We review social psychological evidence suggesting that justice judgments and reactions may be determined more by emotions than by cognitions.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 36 , Issue 1 , February 2013 , pp. 29 - 30
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013

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