This Is Why Revenge Feels So Good, According To Science

[shockedcanadian]

I can attest to this as I have been getting revenge against Canada and individuals of the OPP and RCMP. For me the "joy" isn't in the revenge per se, but in justice. Injustice in this world needs to be repaid with interest or it's not justice in my opinion.

This Is Why Revenge Feels So Good, According To Science

We’ve all wanted to seek out vengeance upon an enemy, or perhaps even a friend, at some point in our lives. It’s often said that revenge is sweet, and a new piece of research seems to confirm there’s a good reason why – it balances out our previously negative mood.

A rather unusual story unfolds in a paper in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology regarding the subject. When a rigorous scientific study involves actual voodoo dolls, you know something odd is going on.

Researchers from the University of Kentucky asked 156 participants to write an essay on a personal topic of their choice, before asking them to swap them with others to get some feedback. This was how it went down in the control group, but in a sneaky second group, one of the researchers pretended to be a participant and made sure to leave the most gloriously awful feedback for some of the others.

Afterwards, the participants were given the chance to demonstrate how angry the feedback did or did not make them. They were given the chance to interact with a virtual voodoo doll that partly resembled the participant that had so savaged their essay writing skills. Then, they were permitted to poke some needles through it.

The mood of the participants was taken before the essay writing began and after the voodoo doll interaction. Curiously, not only did the most aggrieved participants manage to regain their original, happier mood after engaging in a little bit of doll torture, but for some people, their mood was indistinguishable from those who had received positive essay feedback.

However, there’s a caveat here. It may seem like people are seeking revenge for their social rejection in order to fix their mood, but another wicked game was required to determine whether or not this was true.

 

[ScorpioRising007]

I can attest to this as I have been getting revenge against Canada and individuals of the OPP and RCMP. For me the "joy" isn't in the revenge per se, but in justice. Injustice in this world needs to be repaid with interest or it's not justice in my opinion.

This Is Why Revenge Feels So Good, According To Science

We’ve all wanted to seek out vengeance upon an enemy, or perhaps even a friend, at some point in our lives. It’s often said that revenge is sweet, and a new piece of research seems to confirm there’s a good reason why – it balances out our previously negative mood.

A rather unusual story unfolds in a paper in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology regarding the subject. When a rigorous scientific study involves actual voodoo dolls, you know something odd is going on.

Researchers from the University of Kentucky asked 156 participants to write an essay on a personal topic of their choice, before asking them to swap them with others to get some feedback. This was how it went down in the control group, but in a sneaky second group, one of the researchers pretended to be a participant and made sure to leave the most gloriously awful feedback for some of the others.

Afterwards, the participants were given the chance to demonstrate how angry the feedback did or did not make them. They were given the chance to interact with a virtual voodoo doll that partly resembled the participant that had so savaged their essay writing skills. Then, they were permitted to poke some needles through it.

The mood of the participants was taken before the essay writing began and after the voodoo doll interaction. Curiously, not only did the most aggrieved participants manage to regain their original, happier mood after engaging in a little bit of doll torture, but for some people, their mood was indistinguishable from those who had received positive essay feedback.

However, there’s a caveat here. It may seem like people are seeking revenge for their social rejection in order to fix their mood, but another wicked game was required to determine whether or not this was true.

Many harmless satanic cults believe harmless revenge like practicing black magic and casting curses is therapeutic

I prefer what I learned in graduate psychology classes , letting go and training yourself not to give a shit

 

[shockedcanadian]

I can attest to this as I have been getting revenge against Canada and individuals of the OPP and RCMP. For me the "joy" isn't in the revenge per se, but in justice. Injustice in this world needs to be repaid with interest or it's not justice in my opinion.

This Is Why Revenge Feels So Good, According To Science

We’ve all wanted to seek out vengeance upon an enemy, or perhaps even a friend, at some point in our lives. It’s often said that revenge is sweet, and a new piece of research seems to confirm there’s a good reason why – it balances out our previously negative mood.

A rather unusual story unfolds in a paper in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology regarding the subject. When a rigorous scientific study involves actual voodoo dolls, you know something odd is going on.

Researchers from the University of Kentucky asked 156 participants to write an essay on a personal topic of their choice, before asking them to swap them with others to get some feedback. This was how it went down in the control group, but in a sneaky second group, one of the researchers pretended to be a participant and made sure to leave the most gloriously awful feedback for some of the others.

Afterwards, the participants were given the chance to demonstrate how angry the feedback did or did not make them. They were given the chance to interact with a virtual voodoo doll that partly resembled the participant that had so savaged their essay writing skills. Then, they were permitted to poke some needles through it.

The mood of the participants was taken before the essay writing began and after the voodoo doll interaction. Curiously, not only did the most aggrieved participants manage to regain their original, happier mood after engaging in a little bit of doll torture, but for some people, their mood was indistinguishable from those who had received positive essay feedback.

However, there’s a caveat here. It may seem like people are seeking revenge for their social rejection in order to fix their mood, but another wicked game was required to determine whether or not this was true.

Many harmless satanic cults believe harmless revenge like practicing black magic and casting curses is therapeutic

I prefer what I learned in graduate psychology classes , letting go and training yourself not to give a shit

Wrong. When the state and it's henchmen destroy your life, you spread the word and allow other countries to decide if they want to do business with that country or not. If you don't get your pound of flesh, they will go after many more.

 

[SeaGal]

There's an old saying - 'Don't get mad, get even.'

In the case of this study, the participants who felt anger or hurt were offered only an aggressive action towards an individual to express/expel it. If they had been given another choice, such as writing a rebuttal or an essay about the loneliness of feeling left out of a game or cuddling a puppy - it might have been as soothing as aggression.

In your situation - bringing to light the injustice of an organized entity is not necessarily the aggression of revenge so much as seeking justice. To me that is the difference between speaking out and blowing up buildings..