Parsing the components of forgiveness: psychological and neural mechanisms

MM Fourie, R Hortensius, J Decety - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral …, 2020 - Elsevier
Forgiveness―a shift in motivation away from retaliation and avoidance towards increased
goodwill for the perceived wrongdoer―plays a vital role in restoring social relationships …

Overcoming listener skepticism: Costly signaling in communication increases perceived honesty

SJ Chaudhry, KA Wald - Current Opinion in Psychology, 2022 - Elsevier
When conversing with skeptical listeners, honest speakers face the challenge of proving the
credibility of their message. What can speakers do? We argue that incurring an observable …

Forgiveness takes place on an attitudinal continuum from hostility to friendliness: Toward a closer union of forgiveness theory and measurement.

DE Forster, J Billingsley, VM Russell… - Journal of Personality …, 2020 - psycnet.apa.org
Researchers commonly conceptualize forgiveness as a rich complex of psychological
changes involving attitudes, emotions, and behaviors. Psychometric work with the measures …

Apology–forgiveness cycle in restorative justice, but how?

M Suzuki, T Jenkins - International Review of Victimology, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
The apology–forgiveness cycle is a simple but powerful process for conflict resolution. Given
the prevalence of apology and forgiveness in restorative justice (RJ), the apology …

Do reconciliation events serve as a conciliatory signal?

Y Ohtsubo, T Himichi, K Inamasu… - European Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
A set of four vignette studies (total N= 1600) examined whether voluntariness, novelty,
vulnerability and irrevocability of reconciliation events serve as conciliatory signals that …

[HTML][HTML] Don't tell me you are sorry with a gift: The negative consequences of apology gifts

IE De Hooge, LM Straeter - Journal of retailing and consumer services, 2023 - Elsevier
While products are regularly presented as gifts to apologize, little is known about the effect of
an apology context on product evaluations and relationships. Past research suggests that …

Connectome-based predictive modeling of trait forgiveness

J Li, J Qiu, H Li - Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Forgiveness is a positive, prosocial manner of reacting to transgressions and is strongly
associated with mental health and well-being. Despite recent studies exploring the neural …

Brain structures associated with individual differences in decisional and emotional forgiveness

X Rao, W Wang, S Luo, J Qiu, H Li - Neuropsychologia, 2022 - Elsevier
In responding to interpersonal conflicts, forgiveness goes a long way. Past brain imaging
studies have examined the activation patterns of forgiving responses. However, the …

Does victims' forgiveness help offenders to forgive themselves? The role of meta-perceptions of value consensus

M Wenzel, C Harous, M Cibich, L Woodyatt - Journal of Experimental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Interpersonal transgressions are disruptive to relationships as they violate values presumed
to be shared and threaten the integrity of victim and offender, and their shared identity …

[HTML][HTML] Theory of brain complexity and marital behaviors: The application of complexity science and neuroscience to explain the complexities of marital behaviors

GR Nikrahan - Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The extant theories on the quality and stability of marital relationships have some difficulties
in explaining some of the complexities of marital behaviors. The present article is an initial …