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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Authors: Tsang, Jo-Ann (Author) ; Al-Kire, Rosemary L. (Author) ; Carlisle, Robert D. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group [2020]
In: 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
RelBib 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.
ISSN:1532-7582
Contains:Enthalten in: The international journal for the psychology of religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/10508619.2019.1633852