PSYC 362 Chapter : Week 9 Reading Notes
16 Apr 2013
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Emotion, physiology, and health by witvliet, ludwig, and. Forgiving thoughts prompted greater perceived control and comparatively lower physiological stress responses. Chronic unforgiving responses may erode health whereas forgiving responses my enhance it. Unforgiving responses rehearsing the hurt, harboring a grudge. Forgiving responses developing feelings of empathy, granting forgiveness. Participants felt significantly more negative, aroused, angry, and sad and less in control during the unforgiving condition than the forgiving condition. Forgiveness: integral to a science of close relationships by f. Victims tend to overlook details that facilitate forgiving and embellish their memories with details that make forgiving more difficult, whereas. Transgressors tend to embellish details, such as extenuating circumstances, that. Attributions: greater commitment facilitates forgiveness, benign attributions predicted forgiveness both directly and indirectly through lessening negative emotional reactions to the transgression and increasing empathy towards the transgressing spouse. Is most likely to result in relationship repair punish and avoid but not more motivated to engage with the partner.
