PSYCH 3BA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Social Contract, Anger Management, Likert Scale

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 3BA3
• Professor: Richard B Day

Document Summary

Giving up our right to resentment and negative judgement in favor of compassion, generosity and love. The framing of a transgression is changed from negative to neutral or positive. Primarily for the person doing the forgiving, for which the greatest harm is done if they refuse to forgive. A response: feelings, cognitions, behaviours, become less negative, more prosocial. A personal disposition: tendency to forgive others across range of situations. A characteristic of social units: families higher in forgiveness than other units, more likely to forgive people in a group to which we belong. Not condoning: not finding justification for the offense. Not excusing: believer offender does not have defensible reason for offense, if they did we would not need to forgive them. Not pardoning: escaping legal sanctions for offense. Not reconciliation: doesn"t necessarily mean you are repairing relationship with offender. Not forgetting or denying what has happened.