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Vengeance may refer to:Revenge, a harmful action against a person or group in response to a grievance Wikipedia →
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- Read the overview: VengeanceA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Flu and colds are back with a vengeance — why now?Influential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Riders Of The SilenceThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Adolescents' implicit theories predict desire for vengeance after peer conflicts: Correlational and experimental evidence.Cited 164 times
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📖 Definitions
Noun Revenge taken for an insult, injury, or other wrong.
Noun Desire for revenge.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Adolescents' implicit theories predict desire for vengeance after peer conflicts: Correlational and experimental evidence.
Trauma and Vengeance: Assessing the Psychological and Emotional Effects of Post-Conflict Justice
Vengeance is mine: Narcissism, vengeance, and the tendency to forgive
The value of vengeance and the demand for deterrence.
Sex offender community notification: managing high risk criminals or exacting further vengeance?
Vengeance and the Dark Triad: The role of empathy and perspective taking in trait forgivingness
Entitled vengeance: A meta‐analysis relating narcissism to provoked aggression
The Driving Vengeance Questionnaire (DVQ): The Development of a Scale to Measure Deviant Drivers’ Attitudes
🆕 Influential since 2022
📚 Books worth reading
Riders Of The SilenceFrederick Faust, Frederick Faust · 1920
A Game of ThronesGeorge R. R. Martin · 1996
A Time to KillJohn Grisham · 1989
The Children of HúrinJ.R.R. Tolkien · 2001
Full Dark, No StarsStephen King · 2010
The distant echoVal McDermid · 2003
The Little FriendDonna Tartt · 2000
A Prisoner of BirthJeffrey Archer · 2008
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