This morning I read an article about revenge from this website http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/publications/observer/2011/october-11/the-complicated-psychology-of-revenge.html .
By reading this article, I learned that a group of scientists had done a test with a group of people that had trusted friends to share an amount of money with them, when the friends didn't and up sharing the money with everyone else, the scientist tested the brain activity of the "victims". When they the victims were contemplating revenge, a rush of neural activity in the caudate nucleus had gone off. This area of the brain is known for processing rewards.
This was also observed in the blog:
" Behavioral scientists have observed that instead of quenching hostility, revenge can prolong the unpleasantness of the original offense and that merely bringing harm upon an offender is not enough to satisfy a person’s vengeful spirit. They have also found that instead of delivering justice, revenge often creates only a cycle of retaliation, in part because one person’s moral equilibrium rarely aligns with another’s."
Based on this information, I may plan on setting someone up in a specific situation where someone will not follow through on something they said and then observing how they react.
The psychological part of revenge seems very interesting, are you focusing more on why people seek revenge or how they do it?
ReplyDeleteI like the research you have done. Maybe you could include this in your final project. Do you watch the show revenge?
ReplyDeleteI was focusing more on the psychological aspect of it, and yes I do watch the show revenge
ReplyDeleteHi Nikki - I like the idea of incorporating more psychology and research-based studies into your project. If you are thinking of designing an experiment you must be sure to plan it out very carefully.
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