Culture of honor (COH) theory [Nisbett, R. E., & Cohen, D. (1996). Culture of honor: The psychology of violence in the south. Boulder, CO: Westview Press] predicts that the importance of upholding one’s reputation is cross-culturally variable: Revenge should be more prevalent in herding societies than in farming societies, and should be entirely absent in foraging societies. This study was desi...

ing from some or other opaque one; viz by ignoring the mode of representation in certain specifications of a representational content. There are, to be sure, two ways one might read an assertion that John believes the king of France is bored: according to the opaque construal, the speaker takes responsibility for the definite description, according to the transparent construal he doesn’t. (See ...

factors influencing price fairness and its impact on consumer behavior is one of the most important topics in pricing which can have significant impact on consumers in their attitude toward the organization. in this paper, the impact of price fairness on loyalty, willingness to pay and complain and revenge intention of customers in internet access services industry has been tested. the data hav...

Although various typologies and models exist for categorizing aggressive behaviors in organizations, no measure currently exists which assesses the construct of organizational revenge. The primary purpose of the present research was to develop and provide preliminary validation for the Organizational Revenge Scale (ORS). Undergraduates (N = 353) completed the ORS, Vengeance Scale (VS), Interper...

• We examine affect-based retrospective biases for extremely recent events. • We show that people show systematic biases in assessment of recent changes in anger. • We provide insight into revenge and its relation to in-group dynamics. a b s t r a c t a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Revenge Retrospective bias Affective forecasting Anger Ingroup Previous research on retrospective biases in emoti...

Natural revenge over cytomegalovirus ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Andrea Velardi UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA In this issue of Blood, Foley et al show that, in allogeneic hematopoietic transplant recipients, donor-derived natural killer (NK) cells respond to cytomegalovirus (CMV) by acquiring features that are reminiscen...

Recent work on ants shows both extraordinary patterns of reproduction and a new type of sexual conflict, leading to the remarkable scenario where females have no father and males have no mother.

A field study and an experimental study examined relationships among organizational variables and various responses of victims to perceived wrongdoing. Both studies showed that procedural justice climate moderates the effect of organizational variables on the victim's revenge, forgiveness, reconciliation, or avoidance behaviors. In Study 1, a field study, absolute hierarchical status enhanced f...