Forgive and Remember: The Relationship between Religion and the Recollection of Transgressions
Although world religions extol the virtue of forgiveness, psychological research has uncovered a religion-forgiveness discrepancy in which individual differences in religiousness are positively related to valuing forgiveness, but less strongly related to forgiveness on transgression-specific, state...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
[2020]
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The international journal for the psychology of religion
Year: 2020, Volume: 30, Issue: 1, Pages: 35-47 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Normverletzung
/ Forgiveness
/ Memory
/ Religiosity
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| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AE Psychology of religion |
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| Summary: | Although world religions extol the virtue of forgiveness, psychological research has uncovered a religion-forgiveness discrepancy in which individual differences in religiousness are positively related to valuing forgiveness, but less strongly related to forgiveness on transgression-specific, state forgiveness measures. The current study examines the relationship between trait religiousness and trait versus state forgiveness, and compares these with the effects of a religious prime on state forgiveness. 365 undergraduate participants were randomly assigned to a religious or neutral prime, and wrote about a transgression. Consistent with the religion-forgiveness discrepancy, we found that individual differences in religiousness were related more strongly to dispositional forgiveness than to transgression-specific forgiveness, although there were significant relationships to both. The religious prime had no noticeable effect on state forgiveness. Results are consistent with the religion-forgiveness discrepancy. |
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| ISSN: | 1532-7582 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The international journal for the psychology of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/10508619.2019.1633852 |