PSYCH 3BA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Division Of Tangney, Natural Disaster, Neuroticism
5 Nov 2014
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March 21, 2014: while many religions have talked about forgiveness, they have likewise talked about the flipside revenge. A willingness to abandon one"s right to resentment, negative judgment and indifferent behavior toward one who unjustly hurt us, while fostering the undeserved qualities of compassion, generosity, and even love toward him or her. Framing a transgression such that one"s responses to the transgressor, transgression, and sequelae of the transgression are transformed from negative to neutral or positive. Forgiveness reflects increases in prosocial motivation toward another such that there is (1) less desire to harm the transgressing person, (2) increased desire to act positively toward the transgressing person. In forgiving, the victim overcomes his or her feelings of resentment and anger for the act. What is forgiveness: forgiveness as a response, feelings, cognitions, behaviors, become less negative, more prosocial, forgiveness as personal disposition, tendency to forgive others across range of situations, forgiveness as characteristic of social units:
