What is it about?
This article argues that revenge occurs in family relationships and reviews and critiques research supporting this claim.
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Why is it important?
To date, researchers have been slow to consider the possibility that family members may engage in revenge with each other yet there is considerable reason to believe they do. There is a pressing need for more research on this topic and we hope to inspire others to join us in examining it further.
Perspectives
As we prepared to write this paper, one of the most striking findings to me was the level of aggression that can characterize family relationships, especially sibling relationships. One of the papers we reviewed (Kenrick & Sheets, 1993) also inspired us to conduct a new study on revenge fantasies. We look forward to publishing the results of this research in the future.
Dr Susan D Boon
University of Calgary Calgary Centre for Clinical Research
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This page is a summary of: Exploring Revenge as a Feature of Family Life, Journal of Family Theory & Review, September 2014, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/jftr.12041.
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