“A guy cuts you off in traffic. You have the chance to do the same to him at the next light. Do you do it? Or how about a group that sees itself as oppressed attacks random members of the group they see as their oppressors, even if they’re not personally responsible? What should happen?”

These are some of the questions NPR’s Michel Martin asks James Kimmel, Jr., a lecturer at the Yale School of Medicine in psychiatry about his new book, “The Science Of Revenge.” Click HERE to listen in. This is important information especially when you consider experts agree that almost all violence is prompted by a desire for revenge.