Revenge: An adaptive system for maximizing fitness, or a proximate calculation arising from personality and social-psychological processes?

Michael Potegal

doi:10.1017/S0140525X12000441

Revenge: An adaptive system for maximizing fitness, or a proximate calculation arising from personality and social-psychological processes?

Michael Potegal

Occupational Therapy

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Abstract

Revenge appears among a suite of social interactions that includes competition, alliance building (a prerequisite for tribal revenge raids), and so forth. Rather than a modular system directly reflecting evolutionary fitness constraints, revenge may be (another) social cost-benefit calculation involving potential or actual aggression and proximately controlled by individual personality characteristics and beliefs that can work against fitness.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	33-34
Number of pages	2
Journal	Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Volume	36
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X12000441
State	Published - Jan 1 2013

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Revenge: An adaptive system for maximizing fitness, or a proximate calculation arising from personality and social-psychological processes?

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