What psychological process makes a person who is treated badly respond and treat others accordingly although they don’t like they way they’re treated?
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I imagine part of the explanation is a desire on the part of the individual to “make it fair.” There have been experiments performed on monkeys (or apes, I can’t remember) where so long as all individuals received the same food nobody complained (even if the food wasn’t very good) but if one individual saw that another received a better type of food then it no longer accepted the ordinary food and in fact became quite angry.
Found a video of the experiment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meiU6TxysCg
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