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Forgive and Forget: Differences between Decisional and Emotional Forgiveness
To forgive and forget is a well-known idiom, which has rarely been looked at empirically. In the current experiment, we investigated differences between emotional and decisional forgiveness on forgetting. The present study provides the first empirical support that emotional forgiveness has a strong...
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2015
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4422736/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25946090 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0125561 |
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author | Lichtenfeld, Stephanie Buechner, Vanessa L. Maier, Markus A. Fernández-Capo, Maria |
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description | To forgive and forget is a well-known idiom, which has rarely been looked at empirically. In the current experiment, we investigated differences between emotional and decisional forgiveness on forgetting. The present study provides the first empirical support that emotional forgiveness has a strong influence on subsequent incidental forgetting. Specifically, our results demonstrate that emotional forgiveness leads to substantially higher levels of forgetting in respect to offense relevant traits compared to both decisional forgiveness and no forgiveness. This provides evidence for our hypothesized effect that only individuals who have emotionally forgiven a transgression, and not those who just decided to forgive, subsequently forget offense relevant traits attributed to the transgressor. |
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spelling | pubmed-44227362015-05-12 Forgive and Forget: Differences between Decisional and Emotional Forgiveness Lichtenfeld, Stephanie Buechner, Vanessa L. Maier, Markus A. Fernández-Capo, Maria PLoS One Research Article To forgive and forget is a well-known idiom, which has rarely been looked at empirically. In the current experiment, we investigated differences between emotional and decisional forgiveness on forgetting. The present study provides the first empirical support that emotional forgiveness has a strong influence on subsequent incidental forgetting. Specifically, our results demonstrate that emotional forgiveness leads to substantially higher levels of forgetting in respect to offense relevant traits compared to both decisional forgiveness and no forgiveness. This provides evidence for our hypothesized effect that only individuals who have emotionally forgiven a transgression, and not those who just decided to forgive, subsequently forget offense relevant traits attributed to the transgressor. Public Library of Science 2015-05-06 /pmc/articles/PMC4422736/ /pubmed/25946090 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0125561 Text en © 2015 Lichtenfeld et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Lichtenfeld, Stephanie Buechner, Vanessa L. Maier, Markus A. Fernández-Capo, Maria Forgive and Forget: Differences between Decisional and Emotional Forgiveness |
title | Forgive and Forget: Differences between Decisional and Emotional Forgiveness |
title_full | Forgive and Forget: Differences between Decisional and Emotional Forgiveness |
title_fullStr | Forgive and Forget: Differences between Decisional and Emotional Forgiveness |
title_full_unstemmed | Forgive and Forget: Differences between Decisional and Emotional Forgiveness |
title_short | Forgive and Forget: Differences between Decisional and Emotional Forgiveness |
title_sort | forgive and forget: differences between decisional and emotional forgiveness |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4422736/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25946090 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0125561 |
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