One way to get that pleasure is to seek retaliation. Additional brain scan studies have shown that when people imagine ...

We don’t usually think of anger and resentment the way we think about drugs or alcohol. But growing evidence suggests that, for many people, the craving for revenge follows the same patterns as ...

The best revenge films make the viewer feel and think. Whether the protagonist feels cheated, betrayed, or personally ...

James Kimmel, Jr., is a lecturer of psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine, a lawyer, and the founder and co-director of the Yale Collaborative for Motive Control Studies. He is the creator of The ...

When someone wrongs you, you might spend months contemplating revenge. In reality, most of us won’t ever follow through with our devious plans, but it can be fun to dream. Today, however, we’ve got a ...

Redditor zeromochi recently asked, "What's the pettiest way you got revenge on your cheating ex?" and wowzaaaa, folks did not ...

James Kimmel remembers the first time his desire for revenge nearly ruined his life. After years of bullying him, a group of kids in his neighborhood blew up the mailbox at his home in rural ...

“Revenge,” said Francis Bacon, “is a kind of wild justice.” Both justice and revenge, Bacon recognized, involve our punishing those whom we believe have wronged us. But there is one big difference.

Daniel is a 27-year-old List Writer for Collider living in the south suburbs of Chicago, Illinois. As an avid film buff, he watches and analyzes many films and TV shows, especially in the horror genre ...

We love a good revenge game, don’t we folks? It’s an irresistible sports trope. A player leaves a team under murky circumstances — maybe against their will or maybe there’s a footprint on their back ...

Americans’ financial behaviors are going through another period of transformation. The pent-up consumption as COVID lockdowns eased—revenge spending--is giving way to a new, equally impactful trend: ...