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dc.contributor.authorNoreen, Saima
dc.contributor.authorBierman, Raynett
dc.contributor.authorMacLeod, Malcolm David
dc.date.accessioned2014-05-13T16:01:04Z
dc.date.available2014-05-13T16:01:04Z
dc.date.issued2014-07
dc.identifier105488762
dc.identifier2c8a0757-ea38-4470-bfa2-e8c4e08237a5
dc.identifier84904333295
dc.identifier000340131300001
dc.identifier.citationNoreen , S , Bierman , R & MacLeod , M D 2014 , ' Forgiving you is hard, but forgetting seems easy : can forgiveness facilitate forgetting? ' , Psychological Science , vol. 25 , no. 7 , pp. 1295-1302 . https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797614531602en
dc.identifier.issn0956-7976
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/4779
dc.description.abstractForgiveness is considered to play a key role in the maintenance of social relationships, the avoidance of unnecessary conflict, and the ability to move forward with one’s life. But why is it that some people find it easier to forgive and forget than others? In the current study, we explored the supposed relationship between forgiveness and forgetting. In an initial session, 30 participants imagined that they were the victim in a series of hypothetical incidents and indicated whether or not they would forgive the transgressor. Following a standard think/no-think procedure, in which participants were trained to think or not to think about some of these incidents, more forgetting was observed for incidents that had been forgiven following no-think instructions compared with either think or baseline instructions. In contrast, no such forgetting effects emerged for incidents that had not previously been forgiven. These findings have implications for goal-directed forgetting and the relationship between forgiveness and memory.
dc.format.extent608516
dc.format.extent156069
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofPsychological Scienceen
dc.subjectForgivenessen
dc.subjectMotivated forgettingen
dc.subjectInhibitionen
dc.subjectBF Psychologyen
dc.subject.lccBFen
dc.titleForgiving you is hard, but forgetting seems easy : can forgiveness facilitate forgetting?en
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Psychology and Neuroscienceen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Office of the Principalen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Institute of Behavioural and Neural Sciencesen
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/0956797614531602
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden


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