| Autor: |
Exline JJ; Department of Psychology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106-7123, USA. julie.exline@case.edu, Baumeister RF, Zell AL, Kraft AJ, Witvliet CV |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Zdroj: |
Journal of personality and social psychology [J Pers Soc Psychol] 2008 Mar; Vol. 94 (3), pp. 495-515. |
| DOI: |
10.1037/0022-3514.94.3.495 |
| Abstrakt: |
People are more forgiving toward transgressors if they see themselves as capable of committing similar offenses, as demonstrated in 7 studies. Methods included hypothetical scenarios, actual recalled offenses, individual and group processes, and correlational and experimental designs. Three factors mediated the link between personal capability and forgiveness: seeing the other's offense as less severe, greater empathic understanding, and perceiving oneself as similar to the transgressor. In terms of predicting forgiveness, it was important that people's own offenses were similar to the target offense in terms of both severity and type. The personal capability effect was independent of other established predictors of forgiveness and was more pronounced among men than women. |
| Databáze: |
MEDLINE |
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