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Letting off Steam! Experimental Evidence on Displaced Aggression

Elina Wiederhold & Christoph Bühren

Review of Behavioral Economics2025https://doi.org/10.1561/105.00000200article
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Aggression is displaced when provocations cannot be directly retaliated against and when it is redirected towards a target innocent of any wrongdoing. We term the latter behavior inappropriate punishment. Although it is a widespread issue, experimental economics has widely ignored it. We fill this gap and find that one-third of unfairly treated subjects punish co-players who are not responsible for the unfairness. Students affiliated with an armed forces university seem to be more likely to engage in this type of punishment behavior than non-soldier students.

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@article{elina2025,
  title        = {{Letting off Steam! Experimental Evidence on Displaced Aggression}},
  author       = {Elina Wiederhold & Christoph Bühren},
  journal      = {Review of Behavioral Economics},
  year         = {2025},
  doi          = {https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1561/105.00000200},
}

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0.50

Balanced mode · F 0.40 / M 0.15 / V 0.05 / R 0.40

F · citation impact0.50 × 0.4 = 0.20
M · momentum0.50 × 0.15 = 0.07
V · venue signal0.50 × 0.05 = 0.03
R · text relevance †0.50 × 0.4 = 0.20

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