Trial reportPloS one2014
Neural correlates of receiving an apology and active forgiveness: an FMRI study.
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12 citing papers in PubMed.
- Spontaneous brain activity associated with individual differences in decisional and emotional forgiveness.Brain imaging and behavior · 2024Article
- The impact of voluntariness of apologies on victims' responses in restorative justice: findings of a quantitative study.Psychiatry, psychology, and law : an interdisciplinary journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law · 2022Article
- Case Report: Culture-Dependent Postures in Japanese Patients With Schizophrenia.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
- Neural Correlates of Public Apology Effectiveness.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2019Article
- Moral licensing, instrumental apology and insincerity aversion: Taking Immanuel Kant to the lab.PloS one · 2018Article
- Moral Challenges for Psychologists Working in Psychology and Law.Psychiatry, psychology, and law : an interdisciplinary journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law · 2018Article
- Brain Structural Bases of Tendency to Forgive: evidence from a young adults sample using voxel-based morphometry.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- The Neural Systems of Forgiveness: An Evolutionary Psychological Perspective.Frontiers in psychology · 2017Review
- The Neural Association between Tendency to Forgive and Spontaneous Brain Activity in Healthy Young Adults.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2017Article
- Goal or gold: overlapping reward processes in soccer players upon scoring and winning money.PloS one · 2015Article
- Virtues, ecological momentary assessment/intervention and smartphone technology.Frontiers in psychology · 2015Review
- The strength of a remorseful heart: psychological and neural basis of how apology emolliates reactive aggression and promotes forgiveness.Frontiers in psychology · 2015Article
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Abstract
Interpersonal conflicts are a common element of many social relationships. One possible process in rebuilding social relationships is the act of apologizing. Behavioral studies have shown that apologies promote forgiveness. However, the neural bases of receiving an apology and forgiveness are still unknown. Hence, the aim of the present fMRI study was to investigate brain processes involved in receiving an apology and active forgiveness of an ambiguous offense. We asked one group of participants (player A) to make decisions, which were either positive or negative for another group of participants (player B). The intention of player A was ambiguous to player B. In case of a negative impact, participants in the role of player A could send an apology message to participants in the role of player B. Subsequently players B were asked whether they wanted to forgive player A for making a decision with negative consequences. We found that receiving an apology yielded activation in the left inferior frontal gyrus, the left middle temporal gyrus, and left angular gyrus. In line with previous research we found that forgiving judgments activated the right angular gyrus.
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