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Personality, self-control, and welfare-tradeoff ratios in revenge and forgiveness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2012

Daniel Balliet
Affiliation:
Social and Organizational Psychology Department, School of Psychology and Education, VU University, Amsterdam, 1081 BT Amsterdam, The Netherlands. [email protected]://www.psy.vu.nl/nl/over-de-faculteit/medewerkers-alfabetisch/medewerkers-a-b/d-balliet/[email protected]://www.psy.vu.nl/nl/over-de-faculteit/medewerkers-alfabetisch/medewerkers-m-p/pronk-t/index.asp
Tila M. Pronk
Affiliation:
Social and Organizational Psychology Department, School of Psychology and Education, VU University, Amsterdam, 1081 BT Amsterdam, The Netherlands. [email protected]://www.psy.vu.nl/nl/over-de-faculteit/medewerkers-alfabetisch/medewerkers-a-b/d-balliet/[email protected]://www.psy.vu.nl/nl/over-de-faculteit/medewerkers-alfabetisch/medewerkers-m-p/pronk-t/index.asp

Abstract

We address how trait self-control and trait concern for others relate to the concepts of monitored and intrinsic Welfare Tradeoff Ratios (WTRs), respectively, and how recent work on personality, revenge, and forgiveness are informed by the adaptationist perspective proposed in the target article. We also discuss how the proposed adaptationist perspective provides clues to some previously puzzling findings on revenge.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013

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