Is revenge about retributive justice, deterring harm, or both?

Osgood, Jeffrey M.

doi:10.1111/spc3.12296

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“…Selection against subordination could be stronger if capitulating to aggressors is also observed by others. In much the same way as gaining a punitive reputation can yield an advantage to punishers (Barclay 2006;dos Santos et al 2011dos Santos et al , 2013; dos Santos and Wedekind 2015; Raihani and Bshary 2015b, c), a reputation for being easily subordinated might be disadvantageous to acquire (see Cohen et al 1996;Crombag et al 2003;Osgood 2017). This hypothesis deserves further theoretical and empirical attention.…”

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Punishment: one tool, many uses

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“…In other cases, motivations to restore justice can involve overt acts of hostility. One important facet of such aggression is revenge, which has been defined by Osgood (2017) as an "action in response to some perceived wrongdoing by another party intended to inflict damage, injury, discomfort, or punishment on the party judged responsible (p. 1)."…”

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“…1)." As Osgood (2017) notes in his excellent review of the literature, anger-fueled desires for revenge are driven by the perceived injustice surrounding the original wrongful act as well as the harm that such actions may have on others (Aquino et al, 2001;Batson et al, 2007;Carlsmith & Darley, 2008;Gollwitzer, 2009;Gr egoire, Laufer, & Tripp, 2010;Hogan & Emler, 1981;Miller & Vidmar, 1981;Solomon, 1994;Tripp, Bies, & Aquino, 2007).…”

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Anger and its consequences for judgment and behavior: Recent developments in social and political psychology

Lambert

Eadeh

Hanson

2019

Advances in Experimental Social Psychology

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note: pre-publication version; subject to minor revisions. 6.3 Our initial research into the revenge killing of Osama bin Laden 127 6.4 On the bittersweet consequences of revenge 130 7. Part V: On the nature of affordances 135 7.1 Threats represent problems that need fixing 135 7.2 Perceived affordances in politics 136 7.3 Hawkishness as a perceived affordance in the fight against terrorism 136 7.4 Implications for anger 137 8. Part VI: Threat, anger, and political attitudes 137 8.1 Experimental studies of the impact of the 9/11 attacks on political attitudes 138 8.2 Are the political effects of anger consistent for all types of threat? 152 8.3 Further evidence for context specificity: Anger-driven shifts to the political left 153 9. Part VII: On the relation of our affordance model to extant models of threat 156 9.1 What kinds of threat are being considered? 157 9.2 Are threat-driven ideological shifts relatively broad or narrow? 157 9.3 What is the role of affect/emotion? 158 9.4 On the gap between theory and method 159 10. AbstractIn the eyes of the public-and in a substantial amount of scholarly research-anger is often framed in a negative light, given its role in driving people to act in antisocial ways. However, anger also has the potential for social good, insofar as it focuses attention on, and motivates people to fix, perceived injustices. As we discuss, the foundational link between anger and a desire to rectify injustice has profoundly important implications that are relevant to research and theory in a variety of different disciplines (e.g., experimental social psychology, neuroscience, political science, personality). We begin this chapter by considering the methodological and theoretical challenges involved in the measurement of this feeling state, along with its relevance to our line of research on revenge, as well as the ideological consequences of threat. In the course of this discussion, we introduce a neo-Gibsonian framework of threat which allows for the fact that different types of threats, via anger, can exert different types of ideological consequences. A key prediction of this model-one that distinguishes it from current models of threat-is that activation of anger following threat has the potential to shift political attitudes to the "right" or to the "left," depending on the nature of the threat at hand. These and other findings provide a more comprehensive understanding of this emotion, its relation to (perceived and actual) injustice, and its role in shaping relevant political beliefs. 104Alan J. Lambert et al.

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“…The fact that the qualitative content of essays that were elicited from participants as “justice” related yielded a rich discussion of revenge as well as justice suggests that the divisions between justice and revenge conceptually may be arbitrary or unnecessary and requires additional research to clarify this issue. This idea is further supported by a review article (Osgood, ) that noted that a common motivation for infliction of revenge is a sense that it will achieve justice.…”

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A mixed methods study of satisfaction with justice and desire for revenge in survivors of the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York City's World Trade Center

Ayvaci

Pollio

Sonis

et al. 2019

Int J Methods Psych Res

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Objective This study used mixed methods to investigate satisfaction with justice and desire for revenge in a sample of employees from New York City agencies affected by the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center. Methods A volunteer sample of 196 employees of eight affected agencies provided a short essay about what justice means to them in relation to the 9/11 attacks, followed by 20 quantitative questions covering personal experiences and perceptions of 9/11‐related justice. Wilcoxon rank sum tests were performed for bivariate comparisons of quantitative items and qualitative thematic codes. Mixed methods analysis was used to inspect the associations of the content of all text coded for themes with quantitative categories within and across domains. Results Only the revenge domain showed a significant association between the quantitative category and the qualitative theme. The quantitative revenge category was positively associated with the qualitative justice through safety theme. Examination of qualitative content provided insights into the relationships with quantitative constructs. Conclusion Qualitative and mixed methods research on justice and revenge in mass casualty settings add new findings to the existing literature and have the potential to contribute to the interpretation and potential expansion of topic areas assessed by quantitative scales.

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Is revenge about retributive justice, deterring harm, or both?

Cited by 35 publications

References 88 publications

Punishment: one tool, many uses

Punishment: one tool, many uses

Anger and its consequences for judgment and behavior: Recent developments in social and political psychology

A mixed methods study of satisfaction with justice and desire for revenge in survivors of the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York City's World Trade Center

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