It is a delayed revenge, a product of defending one's own rights. A person's actions cause a certain amount of damage to another person's interests, which will cause the former to ask for compensation from the latter or the former will cause the latter to cause the same damage to

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Definition/original

One person's actions cause a certain amount of damage to the other person in the interests, which will cause the former to ask the latter to make compensation or the former will cause the latter to cause the latter to cause the same damage to the interests, and the latter will find ways to combat those who harm their own interests. It is a psychological component of the self-defense protection structure that deals with and resists external adverse factors. This reaction of a person is called revenge. Revenge is also a psychological defense, an instinctive self-defense mechanism for dealing with bad external situations. Therefore, it can be regarded as an exceptional form that protects itself. When you feel the pain of the other person or receive some kind of damage, the revengeer's heart feels that happiness is the mentality of revenge.

The path of revenge from generation to continuation to becoming an idea and system does not mean that revenge is a linear development issue, nor does it mean that the revenge issue can be simply attributed to several stages. In fact, revenge is a very complex and multi-branched issue, and the cognitive framework and logical structure of the issue of revenge are another epistemological issues. People's understanding of things and phenomena is basically based on contact - understanding - analysis - reflection - stability, such a process, but this process will be retrospective or repeated. Revenge, as a universal consciousness, exists in the consciousness of most people. Revenge is born from war and hunting activities and is continued in family and tribal life. In particular, blood ties promote blood vengeance to continue. Blood-revenge, as the most common model in revenge, promoted the formation of revenge as a system.

Formation of

Revenge is a deterrent, showing to others that they are strong and undisturbed. In the cultural process, revenge also reflects the way the group operates. When cooperation is crucial to the survival of the entire group, revenge can turn people into plow and cooperate in collaboration. Retaliation for those who violate social norms within the group helps maintain group unity. Revenge can play an important role when the institution that maintains the rule of law does not exist or is weak in power and cannot provide sufficient protection. If people are hurt in this situation, they tend to seek revenge and try to resist aggression. The direct purpose of revenge is to eliminate the vector of enemy genes as much as possible. For natural creatures, this is often not harmful. For people, revenge is also related to people's persistence and trust in abstract concepts such as "fairness, justice, ideal state of human society, love". Revenge can be used as a reason to unite a large number of people to act together.

Revenge is quite universal, but there are also huge cultural differences. In some cultures, revenge is seen as an absolute necessity for restoring reputation. The importance of glory is reflected in many ancient proverbs, such as "dignity first, bread after" in Arabic . Given its importance, people are often willing to fight for their shame. One common characteristic of revenge people is that in the years, decades, or even decades before revenge, they can have no self-life and development, and only use hatred to tie themselves and the other party together. If you have resentment towards someone, it means that we are too close to this person psychologically. On the personal level, empathizes and understands the truth are particularly important. There may be more forgiveness if you understand your biases and to what extent it leads to conflict. And anger is one of the strongest factors that overwhelm risks.

Gene attribute

Revenge behavior has a certain biological basis. The revengeful behavior of animals in nature is the instinct of survival competition. Animals that do not have this instinct will eventually be eliminated.Like elephants, orcas, tigers, bears, spotted hyena, primate , animals with higher intelligence that are not primates can remember their enemies for a long time and attack them paranoidly. Sometimes they can track targets for a long time and ambush hunters when injured instead of just running away.

In human society, when life is threatened, the immediate counterattack is recognized as reasonable risk aversion or legitimate defense; and Revenge is a delayed revenge behavior . As long as survival anxiety such as "life is threatened" still exists, the Avengers will take attack actions. This behavior may even extend to retaliate against those who have not previously participated in the infringement of the writing. Members outside the group are interchangeable. If the person who hurts you is related to another person, I can avenge my revenge on this person I have never been in contact with, so that conflict can escalate from the individual level to the group level, or even cross-generational level, all from the perception of entity.

From the perspective of gene-centrism, revenge is an attempt to damage the vector of genes such as (including but not limited to you, your blood relatives, other organisms carrying genes that are highly similar to you) (including but not limited to reducing survival rates, affecting survival status, reducing the probability of gene transmission, etc.) vector of enemy genes (including but not limited to a specific biological individual, the blood relative of that body, other organisms carrying genes that are highly similar to that body) through this damage to try to eliminate that gene or inhibit the possibility of continuing to spread, which can reduce the probability that that gene will cause harm to genes like you in the future - of course, this may lead to revenge and end with the final break of the weaker party, but , the gene related to revenge, will not suffer any loss as long as there is a "winner" as a carrier.

is the desire for life and existence, and on the other hand, it is also seeking to die with the other party. Regardless of whether the revenge is successful or not, the Avengers undoubtedly take the initiative to put themselves in a very dangerous situation. There is an extreme revenge behavior that is suicide, such as suicide attacks by terrorists, such as some antisocial people shooting innocent people on campus and committing suicide. They have no clear targets for revenge, and some have a urge to die. They were ready to take care of their own life before they acted, and behind this was the death instinct (the need to end life).

When the life instinct (the need for survival and development) cannot be satisfied, people will feel great anxiety. In order to relieve this anxiety, the life instinct is transformed into its opposite - the death instinct. In this way, the energy accumulated by one side of the life instinct is reduced, and the survival dilemma will strengthen the death instinct. There is another situation that activates the dead instinct, which is the accumulation of guilt in the Avengers. Revenge for relatives reflects the guilt of the avenger as a survivor of the incident that year, "Why isn't I the one who died?" "If I were strong enough, my relatives would not die." This feeling of guilt will make the Avengers actively seek punishment in life, and death is the greatest punishment. So revenge seems to seek survival, but in fact it is seeking death . Revenge reflects our inner desire to vent our hatred: one is to make others feel pain. The other is to regain control.

Personal generation

Personality/ Some suspicious people are prone to retaliation. When conflicts with others, it is easy to guess the responsibilities of others. When sensitive people have conflicts with others, they are easy to go to extremes. Apart from blaming others, they do not think they are wrong and think that the other party deserves the crime.

Family environment/Parent education is an authority. One of their words makes children easily frustrated and do not receive psychological comfort. When they grow up, they will develop a revenge mentality. If parents themselves have a revenge mentality, their children will be easily learned and imitated by the family.

Psychological stress/When you suffer huge life setbacks, such as humiliation and unfairness, the negative emotions in your heart cannot be released or suppressed for a long time, and once you have the opportunity, you will explode, take some bad emotions and take revenge.

Copy other people's revenge methods/ When entering society, it is full of various calculations and conspiracies. I learned this way from the revenge of others, because others treat themselves in a revenge, and I also use this revenge method to use it on people who are weaker than myself to achieve psychological balance.

Negative concepts lead to / Psychologists point out that when you feel that you are treated unfairly and your own interests are damaged, negative emotions are more likely to occur. This emotion can only be calmed down when the other party is also damaged by interests.

Personal consciousness

The formation of polite culture/ Commonly used civilized and polite words among people. Sorry is often used when one person causes trouble or harm to another person due to his own misconduct, especially when the trouble or harm is very minor. For the purpose of preventing the other party from revengeing and protecting himself, it is appropriate for the former to express his desire to forgive him to the latter. If the latter is not satisfied with the former's apology, it is very likely that the former and the latter will gradually escalate from mutual accusations to scolding and even fighting together. Therefore, the commonly used polite term is the external manifestation of the inner reaction of a person's revenge psychology when his own interests increase or decrease due to other people's behavior.

Revenge from heaven/Karma and effect theory is accepted and passed on by word of mouth. The reason why it can be widely circulated is that it conforms to people's observations on certain phenomena. It is not correct and objective, and it can even be said that it is wrong in most cases. The theory of cause and effect has its own rationality, and this rationality is reflected in people's initial understanding of the psychology of revenge. It is the revenge that people rely on the power of heaven to take revenge.

Personal spiritual pillar/ Revenge appears and only occurs when people's interests are lost. If there is no desire for revenge, when a person's interests are lost, he will not organize any actions to block the continued loss of interests or recover the lost interests, then his interests will become less and less until he has nothing. The existence of revenge and revenge behavior ensures that when the self-interest is lost due to the behavior of others, we can organize corresponding behaviors to recover the lost benefits.

Psychological characteristics

Opposite unity/ Self-interest will cause a certain amount of damage to others due to the behavior of others. The revenge mentality will expect that others will also produce compensation for interests that are not less than the amount (a certain amount), or also cause harm to interests that are not less than the amount of benefits. The method of gratitude is to give the people who have helped you a satisfying benefit to express gratitude.

Comparing revenge and gratitude can reveal that revenge is to protect or recover the benefits that one has harmed. Gratitude means giving out some of the benefits to those who have helped them obtain this benefit, so as to consolidate the benefits they have obtained, which is also to protect their own interests without harming them. Revenge and gratitude are opposite to revenge to seek benefits from stakeholders, while gratitude is paying benefits to stakeholders; both are unified in order to protect their own interests.

Debt/Other’s behavior causes damage to self-interest. Before making any compensation for the damage to the interests, the general psychological state is: I will write down this account in my heart first, and one day, I will ask you to repay. If others are responsible for damage to their own interests and promise to compensate, damage to their interests will constitute a debt problem between the two. Debts will disappear only when satisfactory benefits are given. The gain of interest may be an improvement in the status of rights, or it may be money or other things. Revenge and gratitude are actually the process of debt generation, debt repayment, and until the debt disappears. This is the debt nature of revenge.

Anxiety/ The psychological anxiety reaction will occur after the interests are damaged. It will only be eliminated after corresponding compensation or the former retaliation. This means that the damage to interests causes anxiety reactions in retaliation, and the anxiety of retaliation after obtaining compensation for benefits or retaliation of stakeholders is eliminated.

Economic explanation

In the original era of human beings, in the process of tribal competition, killing the population of competing tribes can effectively reduce the population of competing tribes, reduce their population of population birth rate and labor production capacity, and have a substantial impact on competing tribes in terms of production capacity and sustainable development capacity. The corresponding revenge is naturally the purpose of achieving balance, or causing the revenge party to suffer greater losses. In ancient times, the phenomenon of large numbers of people slaughtering and corpses was to reduce the other party's population and plunder wealth, effectively reducing the other party's strength from the perspective of production capacity and wealth level. This strategy was more effective in the pre-country era when there were fewer populations - the tribal settlement era. Because each tribe had a smaller population, individuals had a greater impact on tribal development and wealth accumulation, and was more effective. This is the economic explanation of revenge.