Grace and Forgiveness: Like Lightning and Thunder?

Two studies were conducted considering the potential impact of making God’s grace cognitively salient upon the willingness to forgive a transgressor. In the first study, participants were randomly assigned to a series of exercises designed to make God’s grace cognitively salient or a control conditi...

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Auteurs: Bassett, Rodney L. (Auteur) ; Costanza, Joe (Auteur) ; Davison, Alayna (Auteur) ; Draper, Becky (Auteur) ; Komerek, Vanessa (Auteur) ; Macmillen, Alysa (Auteur) ; Moore, Sofia (Auteur) ; Stalk, Kristi (Auteur) ; Stallone, Dan (Auteur) ; Vitalia, Julia (Auteur)
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Langue:Anglais
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Publié: 2019
Dans: Journal of psychology and christianity
Année: 2019, Volume: 38, Numéro: 4, Pages: 227-236
Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés:B Dieu / Grâce / Perception / Pardon
RelBib Classification:AE Psychologie de la religion
NBC Dieu
NBK Sotériologie
NCB Éthique individuelle
Sujets non-standardisés:B Forgiveness
B Lightning
B Factorial experiment designs
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Résumé:Two studies were conducted considering the potential impact of making God’s grace cognitively salient upon the willingness to forgive a transgressor. In the first study, participants were randomly assigned to a series of exercises designed to make God’s grace cognitively salient or a control condition. The results revealed that making God’s grace cognitively salient increased emotional forgiveness but not decisional forgiveness. The second study combined an experimental manipulation of grace salience with McCullough, Root, and Cohen’s (2006) recalling benefits strategy for promoting forgiveness in a 2 x 2 factorial design. This study revealed a significant interaction for decisional forgiveness with the combination of both manipulations producing high levels of forgiveness. With emotional forgiveness, there was a significant main effect for grace salience (replicating the earlier finding) and a significant interaction indicating that the combination of grace salience and recalling benefits produced higher levels of emotional forgiveness. The overall findings were then explicated by considering the potential power of making God’s grace cognitively salient to help frame the recall of past transgressions.
ISSN:0733-4273
Contient:Enthalten in: Journal of psychology and christianity