Everything about Retribution

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: RetributionA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Anger and support for retribution in Mexico’s drug warInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Full Dark, No StarsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Deception and Retribution in Repeated Ultimatum BargainingCited 245 times
5. Go sideways: VengeanceA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Revenge (disambiguation)A closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Deception and Retribution in Repeated Ultimatum Bargaining

  Terry L. Boles, Rachel T.A. Croson, J.Keith Murnighan · 2000 · Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes · 245 citations

• Vicarious Retribution: The Role of Collective Blame in Intergroup Aggression

  Brian Lickel, Norman Miller, Douglas M. Stenstrom · 2006 · Personality and Social Psychology Review · 236 citations

• The roles of retribution and utility in determining punishment

  Kevin M. Carlsmith · 2006 · Journal of Experimental Social Psychology · 206 citations

• Free Will and Punishment: A Mechanistic View of Human Nature Reduces Retribution

  Azim F. Shariff, Joshua D. Greene, Johan C. Karremans · 2014 · Psychological Science · 191 citations

• Robots, law and the retribution gap

  John Danaher · 2016 · Ethics and Information Technology · 160 citations

• Reprisal, retribution and requital: Investigating customer retaliation

  Venessa Funches, Melissa Markley, Lenita Davis · 2009 · Journal of Business Research · 133 citations

• Risk in the face of retribution: Psychopathic individuals persist in financial misbehavior among the Dark Triad

  Daniel N. Jones · 2014 · Personality and Individual Differences · 121 citations

• Anxious and Angry Rejection Sensitivity, Social Withdrawal, and Retribution in High and Low Ambiguous Situations

  Melanie J. Zimmer‐Gembeck, Drew Nesdale · 2013 · Journal of Personality · 110 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Anger and support for retribution in Mexico’s drug war

  Omar García-Ponce, Lauren E Young, Thomas Zeitzoff · 2023 · Journal of Peace Research · 43 citations

• Fraud as Legitimate Retribution for Colonial Injustice: Neutralization Techniques in Interviews with Police and Online Romance Fraud Offenders

  Suleman Lazarus, Mariata Hughes, Mark Button · 2025 · Deviant Behavior · 39 citations

• Moral Injury, Betrayal and Retribution: Australian Veterans and the Role of Chaplains

  Timothy J. Hodgson, Lindsay B. Carey, Harold G. Koenig · 2022 · Journal of Religion and Health · 20 citations

• Mindfully outraged: Mindfulness increases deontic retribution for third-party injustice

  Adam A. Kay, Theodore C. Masters-Waage, Jochen Reb · 2023 · Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes · 20 citations

• The rise of paedophile hunters: To what extent are cyber-vigilante groups a productive form of policing, retribution and justice?

  Anna Tippett · 2022 · Criminology & Criminal Justice · 10 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Full Dark, No StarsStephen King · 2010
• The life and death of Mr. BadmanJohn Bunyan · 1680
• The Stars My DestinationAlfred Bester · 1956
• StruwwelpeterHeinrich Hoffmann · 1995
• Duchess of MalfiJohn Webster, Karen Britland · 2012
• The Wine of AngelsPhil Rickman · 1998
• CHANGING OF THE GUARDTom Clancy, Steve Perry · 2003
• 100 bulletsBrian Azzarello · 2000

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