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The elementary dynamics of intergroup conflict and revenge

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2012

David Pietraszewski*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520-8205. david.pietraszewski@yale.edu

Abstract

The psychology underlying revenge in an intergroup context is built around a small handful of recurrent interaction types. Analyzing the cost/benefit calculations of each agent's role within these interaction types provides a more precise way to characterize intergroup conflict and revenge. This in turn allows for more precise models of the psychology of intergroup conflict to be proposed and tested.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013

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