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227 | Molly Crockett on the Psychology of Morality
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
Retribution Is Not Helpful for Individual Well-Being
There's this idea that revenge is sweet and it's satisfying, but actually there's data showing that if you hold on to grudges and revenge, like that's harmful to your well-being as well. We did these experiments where basically we gave people the opportunity to punish someone and they would never know that they had been punished. It was sort of like the economic game equivalent of waiters spitting in a root customer's food in the kitchen before they bring it out. They will pay money to reduce the payoff of somebody who's behaved unfairly towards them, even if they never find out. But then when you ask them to report afterwards, like, oh, why did you punish?
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