The strength of a remorseful heart: Psychological and neural basis of how apology emolliates reactive aggression and promotes forgiveness

The strength of a remorseful heart: Psychological and neural basis of how apology emolliates reactive aggression and promotes forgiveness

Apology from the offender facilitates forgiveness and thus has the power to restore a broken relationship. Here we showed that apology from the offender not only reduces the victim’s propensity to react aggressively but also alters the victim’s implicit attitude and neural responses towards the offe...

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Main Authors: Urielle eBeyens, Hongbo eYu, Ting eHan, Li eZhang, Xiaolin eZhou
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
Forgiveness
ERP
N2
Implicit Association Test
reactive aggression
late positive component
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01611/full

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http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01611/full

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