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What is the psychological motivation for seeking race-based vengeance?

5 February 2019

Dr Lasana Harris (UCL Division of Psychology & Language Sciences) explains how our minds can generalise a negative experience with a person by “categorising them in a way that may be flawed”, prompting the urge to act upon an “unjustifiable prejudice” towards an entire community.

Read: Independent