The emergence of revenge social norms

Social norms of revenge can be found across the world. How do norms of revenge emerge and stabilise? Aron Szekely offers insights.

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Social norms of revenge can be found across the world imposing serious costs on the people following them and others in those societies. How do norms of revenge emerge and stabilise given these severe costs?

Aron argues that socio-economic factors play a key role in the emergence of revenge behaviours, emphasising the importance of group interdependence in turning them into social norms.

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Aron Szekely

Assistant Professor in Sociology

Collegio Carlo Alberto

His research studies interpersonal cooperation and conflict and the mechanisms, particularly social norms, reputation, signalling, and dominance hierarchies that reduce or increase them.

He uses empirically tractable theories and employ multiple methods to explore micro-level individual decision-making and the resulting emergent macro-level social phenomena.