In his new book, The science of revengeJames Kimmel Jr. argues that there is a human desire to even go – and it could even be dependence. Kimmel Jr., a professor at the Yale School of Medicine, made his own taste for reprisals in adolescence and then estimated that he would benefit from a kind of “revenge rehabilitation”. In the episode of today, the author told Michel Martin de NPR that revenge illuminates the same area of the brain activated by drug addiction. They also discuss the role of revenge in American policy and the biological advantages of forgiveness.
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