Revenge across Childhood and Adolescence

Holly Recchia, Cecilia Wainryb

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN:
  9781108489362
• eBook ISBN:
  9781108801461
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Developmental Psychology
• Index: Psychology

This volume brings together research on revenge across childhood and adolescence to explore how revenge is a part of normative development, but also arises from maladaptive social environments. The chapters demonstrate the ways in which revenge is intertwined with social, emotional, cognitive, and moral development as well as being informed by interpersonal experiences within familial, educational, community, and cultural social settings. The book summarizes international scholarship on revenge across early childhood to late adolescence from a wide variety of interdisciplinary perspectives to provide a comprehensive overview of the field. The authors address how individual differences in revenge emerge as an adaptation to the challenges faced when growing up in adverse social and societal conditions. They then suggest a range of avenues for effective intervention that take account of the complexity of revenge as a psychological and social phenomenon.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title
• Title page
• Copyright information
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• List of Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1 And If You Wrong Us, Shall We Not Revenge?: The Value of Grappling with the Experience of Revenge among Youth
• Chapter 2 A Framework for Understanding Variation in Youth Revenge Motivations and Retaliatory Behaviors
• Chapter 3 Normative Changes and Individual Differences in Retaliation Judgments: A Constructivist Developmental Perspective
• Chapter 4 Developing Revenge in Early Childhood: Current Evidence and Future Directions
• Chapter 5 Understanding Youths' Retaliatory Experiences through the Lens of Moral Agency
• Chapter 6 Cultural Systems and the Development of Norms Governing Revenge and Retribution
• Chapter 7 Settling the Score in a Zero-Sum Game: Understanding Revenge among Urban Male Youth Overexposed to Gun Violence
• Chapter 8 Intergroup Processes: Revenge among Youth Living amid Protracted Conflict
• Chapter 9 Revenge, Justice Systems, and Institutional Trust in Schools: Narrative Considerations
• Chapter 10 The Importance of a Positive School Climate in Addressing Youth Retaliation
• Chapter 11 Socioemotional Competencies and Positive Classroom Climate as Alternatives to Prevent Revenge in Colombian Schools
• Chapter 12 Looking Back and Charting a Course: Considering Individual, Interpersonal, and Institutional Contributions to the Development of Revenge in Childhood and Adolescence
• Index