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...
| Published in: | Journal of psychology and christianity |
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Published: |
2019
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| In: |
Journal of psychology and christianity
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
God
/ Grace
/ Perception
/ Forgiveness
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| RelBib Classification: | AE Psychology of religion NBC Doctrine of God NBK Soteriology NCB Personal ethics |
| Further subjects: | B
Forgiveness
B Lightning B Factorial experiment designs |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| ISSN: | 0733-4273 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of psychology and christianity
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