The Impact of Shame, Humiliation and Pride on Revenge Desire and Behavior in Victims of Crime: A Pilot Experimental Study.

= 108). Participants were betrayed in a prisoner's dilemma game and randomly assigned to a shame/humiliation, pride, or control condition. They then reported revenge desire and could administer noise-blasts as revenge. Humiliation significantly predicted both revenge desire and acts; shame approached significance for revenge desire, and pride was unrelated. These findings suggest that negative self-conscious emotions, particularly humiliation, can trigger revenge in crime victims and should be targeted in violence prevention efforts.