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Revenge

Revenge

Is it true that Revenge is addictive and can become an addiction?

Revenge

Not sure if is addictive but can become an obsession. Basically, you make the other person suffer but is never enough for you, so you keep making his/her life miserable through revenge but will never satisfy you.

Revenge Health & Special Psychology

People think that happiness can be achieved by righting wrongs done to them and it doesn't so they leave upon their psyche a hole that can never be filled, probably with several others from before.

Revenge

Make no mistake, revenge is (Bitter) sweet

Deep, dark and sometimes overwhelming, the human compulsion to seek revenge is a complex emotion that science has found incredibly hard to explain. Despite popular consensus that "Revenge is sweet," years of experimental research have suggested otherwise, finding that revenge is seldom as satisfying as we anticipate and often leaves the avenger less happy in the long run. New research is adding a twist to the science of revenge, showing that our love-hate relationship with this dark desire is indeed a mixed bag, making us feel both good and bad, for reasons we might not expect. Ref. Source 5r.

Revenge

Revenge is more fulfilling when the other person celebrates it. For instance the enemy shoots your partner and starts celebrating it then you want him down even more than before! Revenge on the battlefield takes on a different dynamic than in civilian life.

Revenge

How the brain suppresses the act of revenge. Researchers have developed an economic game in which a participant is confronted with the fair behavior of one player and the unfair provocations of another player. They observed which areas were activated as the participant experienced unfairness and anger. Then scientists gave the participant the opportunity to take revenge. They thus identified the location in the brain of activations that are related to the suppression of the act of revenge in the dorsolateral prefontal cortex. Source 3a.