0 A retaliatory action is one that is harmful to someone who has done something to harm you:
1 used to describe an action that is intended to harm someone who has done something to harm you:
This work sheds light on the cognitive mechanisms in retaliatory aggression.
This is typically countered by retaliatory publicity from the opposing side.
The nuclear powers, relying on the retaliatory capabilities of the strategic deterrent, regarded their territory as a sanctuarium.
Insensitive items included some behaviors characteristic of the second and third factors in addition to punitive, retaliatory behavior, and annoyance directed toward the baby.
Moreover, the role of deviant peers may explain why victimized youth may engage in aggressive and delinquent behaviors that are not retaliatory in nature.
Furthermore, he noted that retaliatory aggression in response to threat often moves well beyond the defense of self to destruction of a threatening opponent.
Because my students had attended class, therefore, none were vulnerable to the retaliatory measures that the university contemplated.
Thus, the contribution of ethology has been to identify a type of aggressive behavior that is an emotionally frenzied self-defensive and retaliatory response to the perception of threat.
