. The social science literature indicates people who were raised in situations where they experienced poverty, crime, violence or just plain unfair treatment have a hair-trigger response to injustice in both imagined scenarios and game-based experiments.
.. The most vengeful responses tend to be provoked when honor or identity is threatened, such as being spurned by a lover or having one’s family or religion maligned. Also likely to generate instinctual outrage is any form of humiliation or violation of social or moral norms.
.. Rather than inflicting suffering, it turns out that what victims really want isremorse from the person who wronged them, along with a heartfelt apology, which includes a promise to reform and rectify the situation as much as possible.