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Revenge Publications



Yoshimura, S. M., & Boon, S. D. (2022). Fantasies of revenge: An evolutionary and individual differences account. Imagination, Cognition and Personality: Consciousness in Theory, Research, and Clinical Practice.


Paulin, M., & Boon, S. D. (2021). Revenge via social media and relationship contexts: Prevalence and measurement. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 38, 3692-3712.


Boon, S. D., & Yoshimura, S. M. (2020). Revenge as social interaction: Merging social psychological and interpersonal communication approaches to the study of vengeful behavior. Social Psychology and Personality Compass.


Yoshimura, S. M., & Boon, S. D. (2018). Communicating Revenge in Interpersonal Relationships. NY: Lexington.


Boon, S. D., Rasmussen, K. R., Deveau, V. L., & Alibhai, A. M. (2017). Resisting revenge: An investigation of reasons for foregoing revenge in romantic relationships. Personal Relationships, 24, 474-490..


Rasmussen, K. R., Alibhai, A., Boon, S. D., & Ellard, J. H. (2016). Trust as an explanation for relational differences in revenge. Forthcoming in Basic and Applied Social Psychology.


Boon, S. D., & Yoshimura, S. M. (2016). Avengees’ perspectives on revenge: Commitment as a predictor and relationship type differences. Personal Relationships, 23, 475-490.


Yoshimura, S. M., & Boon, S. D. (2014). Exploring revenge as a feature of family life. Journal of Family Theory and Review, 6, 222-240.


Boon, S. D., & Yoshimura, S. M. (2014). Pluralistic ignorance in revenge attitudes and behavior in interpersonal relationships. Personal Relationships, 21, 258-271.


Rasmussen, K. R., & Boon, S. D. (2014). Romantic revenge and the dark triad: A model of impellance and inhibition. Personality and Individual Differences, 56, 51-56.


Sheppard, K. E., & Boon, S. D. (2012). Predicting appraisals of romantic revenge: The roles of honesty-humility, agreeableness, and vengefulness. Personality and Individual Differences, 52, 128-132.


Boon, S. D., Alibhai, A. M., & Deveau, V. L. (2011). A taste of their own medicine: Reflections on the costs and benefits of exacting romantic revenge. Canadian Journal of Behavioural Sciences, 43 (2), 128–137.


Boon, S. D., Deveau, V. L, & Alibhai, A. M. (2009). Payback: An Exploration of the Parameters of Revenge in Romantic Relationships, Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 26 (6-7), 747-768.


Boon, S. D. (2009). Revenge. In H. T. Reis & S. Sprecher (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Human Relationships, pp. 1378-1379.,