Posted on 09/27/2004 12:36:50 PM PDT by NYC GOP Chick
Revenge makes your day The study illustrates growing interest in the interaction between emotion and cognition - which in turn influences fields such as how to model the economy better. The new study chips "yet another sliver from the rational model of economic man", said Stanford University psychologist Brian Knutson, who reviewed the research. "Instead of cold, calculated reason, it is passion that may plant the seeds of revenge," he said. People are often eager to punish wrongdoers even if revenge brings them no gain or costs them. From a practical standpoint, that may seem irrational. In research reported in the latest edition of the journal Science, University of Zurich scientists scanned the brain activity of game players to determine what motivates that type of revenge. Players could either trust and co-operate so they both earned money, or one could double-cross the other and keep an unfair share. Sometimes the double-cross was deliberate; other times, the game dictated it. The victim could retaliate by fining the double-crosser different amounts, but sometimes had to spend his own money to impose the fine. All 14 players chose revenge whenever the double-cross was deliberate and the retaliation free. Only three retaliated when the double-cross wasn't deliberate. And 12 punished a deliberate double-cross even if it cost them money. The scans showed a brain region important for enjoyment and satisfaction - the dorsal striatum - became active in players who retaliated. It was not an afterglow from revenge, but satisfaction from anticipating it. When retaliation cost money, a second brain region that helps weigh costs and benefits became involved, but the striatum remained key. The level of activity predicted which players would spend on revenge. "Their behaviour does not reflect blind revenge that follows from overwhelming emotions," said study co-author Ernst Fehr, University of Zurich's director of economic research institute. "They reduce punishment if it is costly for them in the same way as they reduce buying goods if the goods become more expensive." The study involved only men, and more work is needed to see if women and people of varying social and income groups react similarly.
By Lauran Neergaard
September 28, 2004
DIRTY Harry had it right: brain scans show revenge really can make your day.
Planning revenge sparks enough satisfaction to motivate getting even - and the level of satisfaction predicts who will go to greater lengths to do so, say Swiss researchers who monitored brain activity during a game of double-cross.
*Muahahahaaaa*
I believe in forgive and forget. But as we all know before we forgive the slate must be square so as I see it revenge is a must have part of the forgiveness process. Only by exacting just and terrorible revenge can you then forgive.
ROFLOL!!!!!
Well, having sex makes my day, too....
But not as much as owning the clown who cut me off on the freeway this morning! It was sooo sweet to gain the advantage, and box him in behind me and a slow moving car in the right lane. Yes! And it wasn't even a game--it was death-defyingly real! I owned his arse for 3 miles, until I saw him clutch his chest and veer off the road...
Shoot. They needed to research this?
/kidding. Don't email me!
Some of those pics have traumatized me for life!
Hmmmm...I guess my spending too much time here lately hasn't been enough; I totally missed something, it would appear!
Hmmm..
This DOES give me an idea.
I have found, however, that success is ultimately the best revenge.
Karma can indeed be a very harsh mistress.
Just ask Jon Gruden.
Nope - I'm not going to touch this one...............
I have Irish Alzheimer's. I always remember the grudges. :)
LOL yeah hehehe that was a funny thread. BTW, I let God take care of my revenge.
My mom is taking care of a ninety six year old Irishman. She told he has proposed marriage and forever reminds her when he is supposed to get his spongebath (forgetting everything else I might add!) *LOL*
LOL
Oh, probably not. I mean, has anyone here ever known a woman to hold a grudge?
Hebrew National sign on right field fence just on the spot where the kaaba stone is now.
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