Beyond revenge : the evolution of the forgiveness instinct / Michael E. McCullough.
"Contrary to conventional wisdom, McCullough contends that the desire for revenge should not be likened to a "disease" or a "poison" that makes people do terrible things to each other. Instead, he argues, natural selection created our penchant for revenge because it helped o...
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San Francisco, CA :
Jossey-Bass,
[2008]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Three simple truths about revenge and forgiveness
- Putting vengeance and forgiveness back into human nature
- Revenge is a problem : counting the costs
- Revenge is a solution : three evolutionary hypotheses
- The retribution solution : the evidence for adaptation
- Family, friendship, and the functions of forgiveness
- The forgiveness instinct
- The forgiving brain
- To promote and to maintain friendly relations : making forgiveness happen
- From neurons to nations
- Divine forgiveness and righteous revenge
- Homo ignoscens.