群際替代性報復是指群體內成員受到外群體成員的傷害后,內群體的其他成員對外群體的其他成員進行報復的現象。這種基于群體水平上的替代性報復很大程度上已經超越了原本的侵犯者和受害者,而涉及到群體雙方更大范圍的其他人。替代性報復是一個復雜的心理過程,其產生和程度受到傷害感知、群體認同、外群體實體性、群體情緒以及內群觀眾效應的影響。內群體在實施替代性報復后也往往存在較為一致的"正面"認知評價和情感體驗。未來還需要繼續在學術層面上整合和完善替代性報復的心理機制,探討不同文化觀念下替代性報復的特點,最重要的是結合社會現實提出減少替代性報復的策略。

Inter-group vicarious retribution is the phenomenon whereby, after an out-group member attacks an in-group member, a member of the victim’s group retaliates against a member of the perpetrator’s group. Group-based vicarious retribution has largely gone beyond the original offenders and victims, and involves a wider range of other people in the group. Vicarious retribution is a complex psychological process, and its occurrence and extent are influenced by many fators. Perceived injury, in-group identification, out-group entitativity, group emotions and in-group audience effect are predictors of vicarious retribution. After the implementation of vicarious retaliation, the in-group members often has "positive" cognitive assessment and emotional experience. In the future, we need to integrate the psychological mechanisms of vicarious retribution, explore whether the different cultural values and religions idea can affect the possibility of vicarious retribution occurring, and the most important work is putting forward proposals to reduce vicarious retribution in society.