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 toward the offen...

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Main Authors: Beyens, U, Yu, H, Han, T, Zhang, L, Zhou, X
Format: Journal article
Published: Frontiers Media 2015