TY - JOUR
T1 - Revenge
T2 - An adaptive system for maximizing fitness, or a proximate calculation arising from personality and social-psychological processes?
AU - Potegal, Michael
PY - 2013/1/1
Y1 - 2013/1/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1017/S0140525X12000441
DO - 10.1017/S0140525X12000441
M3 - Review article
C2 - 23211580
AN - SCOPUS:84876925455
SN - 0140-525X
VL - 36
SP - 33
EP - 34
JO - Behavioral and Brain Sciences
JF - Behavioral and Brain Sciences
IS - 1
ER -