{
  "id": 16744429,
  "title": "We’ll pay to get revenge on an algorithm, even though it can’t feel a thing",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/27/well-pay-to-get-revenge-on-an-algorithm-even-though-it-cant-feel-a",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-10-27T11:00:47.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "PsyPost",
    "slug": "psypost",
    "url": "https://www.psypost.org/well-pay-to-get-revenge-on-an-algorithm-even-though-it-cant-feel-a-thing/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "An algorithm can’t feel the sting of losing money, but people will sacrifice their own cash to punish one anyway. In experiments with more than 6,000 participants, people retaliated against unfair machines just as often as against unfair humans.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}