Hurt People, Hurt People

Rastogi, Meera

doi:10.1037/a0025055

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Forgiveness and Cognitive Flexibility1

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“…The act liberates the forgiver from the grudge and the intention to seek revenge and harm the perpetrator. The act of forgiving, often described as an unburdening process (Hamilton 2012;Wood 2008;Zheng, Fehr, Tai, Narayanan, and Gelfand 2015), reduces psychological tension and stress levels (Harris and Thoresen 2005;Witvliet, Ludwig, and Vander Laan 2001). In addition to its unburdening effect on cognition, forgiveness has also been found to reduce psychological tensions (Karremans, Van Lange, Ouwerkerk, and Kluwer 2003), to improve relationship satisfaction (Braithwaite, Selby, and Fincham 2011) and cooperation (Karremans and Van Lange 2004), and to foster a sense of connectedness entailing a cognitive shift from "I-ness" to "we-ness" (Karremans and Van Lange 2008b).…”

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Why Does Forgiving Boost Creativity? The Role of Cognitive Persistence

Lee¹,

Jung²,

Kim³

2016

Seoul Journal of Business

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This study elucidates the specific cognitive mechanism by which the act of forgiving enhances creativity. We use the dual pathway to creativity model to examine whether the act of forgiving increases creativity via cognitive persistence (generating detailed ideas within a small number of categories), but not via cognitive flexibility (generating multiple categories and switching ideas between categories). Two experiments conducted

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