James Kimmel, Jr.

And when that area of the brain, which is your brain registering significant psychological or physical pain, your brain doesn't like pain and it wants to rebalance itself. So it's got too much pain and it wants to reverse that or balance that. And the way it does it, it turns out, for revenge seeking,

is it activates the pleasure and reward circuitry of addiction and in that area of the brain it registers revenge which is to say inflicting pain upon another person to make yourself feel better that registers in your brain in that circuitry and it feels extremely pleasurable for you

is it activates the pleasure and reward circuitry of addiction and in that area of the brain it registers revenge which is to say inflicting pain upon another person to make yourself feel better that registers in your brain in that circuitry and it feels extremely pleasurable for you

is it activates the pleasure and reward circuitry of addiction and in that area of the brain it registers revenge which is to say inflicting pain upon another person to make yourself feel better that registers in your brain in that circuitry and it feels extremely pleasurable for you

Let's take an example of you're driving your car right now or at some other time and somebody cuts you off in traffic, right? So they've disrespected you and your perception is that was wrong, that was a violation of some social norm. And if you're like a lot of people, you're pretty upset by it and you're going to maybe potentially honk your horn, you're going to potentially shout.

Let's take an example of you're driving your car right now or at some other time and somebody cuts you off in traffic, right? So they've disrespected you and your perception is that was wrong, that was a violation of some social norm. And if you're like a lot of people, you're pretty upset by it and you're going to maybe potentially honk your horn, you're going to potentially shout.

Let's take an example of you're driving your car right now or at some other time and somebody cuts you off in traffic, right? So they've disrespected you and your perception is that was wrong, that was a violation of some social norm. And if you're like a lot of people, you're pretty upset by it and you're going to maybe potentially honk your horn, you're going to potentially shout.

If you're a little more aggressive, you might, Flip the finger at that person. If you're a little more aggressive, you might start tailgating them. If you're a little more aggressive than that, you might try and cut them off. And if you're a lot more aggressive, you might pull a gun on that person. So there are these different stages of seeking revenge. So why do people do this?

If you're a little more aggressive, you might, Flip the finger at that person. If you're a little more aggressive, you might start tailgating them. If you're a little more aggressive than that, you might try and cut them off. And if you're a lot more aggressive, you might pull a gun on that person. So there are these different stages of seeking revenge. So why do people do this?

If you're a little more aggressive, you might, Flip the finger at that person. If you're a little more aggressive, you might start tailgating them. If you're a little more aggressive than that, you might try and cut them off. And if you're a lot more aggressive, you might pull a gun on that person. So there are these different stages of seeking revenge. So why do people do this?

Why do we have road rage killings? And why do we have road rage accidents? And why don't we just have a lot of anger on the road from something as simple as being cut off in traffic? And what we know now is that that is your way You being the victimized driver of this guy that cut you off. That is your way of trying to make yourself feel better after the pain of being cut off.

Why do we have road rage killings? And why do we have road rage accidents? And why don't we just have a lot of anger on the road from something as simple as being cut off in traffic? And what we know now is that that is your way You being the victimized driver of this guy that cut you off. That is your way of trying to make yourself feel better after the pain of being cut off.

Why do we have road rage killings? And why do we have road rage accidents? And why don't we just have a lot of anger on the road from something as simple as being cut off in traffic? And what we know now is that that is your way You being the victimized driver of this guy that cut you off. That is your way of trying to make yourself feel better after the pain of being cut off.

And that's an important insight for humanity because we've never understood until now what the biological cause of any form of violence is. And now we know the biological cause is almost all forms of violence are violence.

And that's an important insight for humanity because we've never understood until now what the biological cause of any form of violence is. And now we know the biological cause is almost all forms of violence are violence.

And that's an important insight for humanity because we've never understood until now what the biological cause of any form of violence is. And now we know the biological cause is almost all forms of violence are violence.

are the result of revenge seeking so we know that from vast public databases and law enforcement agencies now all generally agree and behavioral studies that almost every form of violence is the result of the perpetrator having felt victimized and now trying to make themselves feel better acting out neural circuitry of pleasure and reward seeking to make themselves feel better

are the result of revenge seeking so we know that from vast public databases and law enforcement agencies now all generally agree and behavioral studies that almost every form of violence is the result of the perpetrator having felt victimized and now trying to make themselves feel better acting out neural circuitry of pleasure and reward seeking to make themselves feel better

are the result of revenge seeking so we know that from vast public databases and law enforcement agencies now all generally agree and behavioral studies that almost every form of violence is the result of the perpetrator having felt victimized and now trying to make themselves feel better acting out neural circuitry of pleasure and reward seeking to make themselves feel better

And the last component is you have a prefrontal cortex in your brain, which is your executive function and control circuitry. And that's there to stop you from doing things that hurt yourself or other people.