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The pleasure of revenge: retaliatory aggression arises from a neural imbalance toward reward

Most of daily life hums along peacefully but provocations tip the balance toward aggression. Negative feelings are often invoked to explain why people lash out after an insult. Yet people might retaliate because provocation makes aggression hedonically rewarding. To test this alternative hypothesis,...

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Published in:Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci
Main Authors: Chester, David S., DeWall, C. Nathan
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Oxford University Press 2016
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4927037/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26117504
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsv082
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