Developing conceptions of forgiveness across the lifespan

IF 3.9 1区 心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL
Abby McLaughlin, Julia Marshall, Katherine McAuliffe
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Understanding how to respond to transgressions is central to cooperation, yet little is known about how individuals understand the consequences of these responses. Accordingly, the current study explored children's (ages 5–9), adolescents' (ages 11–14), and adults' (N = 544, predominantly White, ~50% female, tested in 2021) understandings of three such responses—forgiveness, punishment, and doing nothing. At all ages, participants differentiated between the consequences of these three responses. Forgiveness was associated with more positive and fewer negative outcomes, while the opposite was true for punishment and doing nothing. With age, participants were less likely to expect positive outcomes, and this effect was strongest for punishment and doing nothing. The results of this study allow novel insights into reasoning about three important response strategies.

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在人的一生中发展宽恕观念。
了解如何应对违法行为是合作的核心,但对于个人如何理解这些应对措施的后果却知之甚少。因此,本研究探讨了儿童(5-9 岁)、青少年(11-14 岁)和成年人(人数 = 544,主要为白人,约 50% 为女性,2021 年接受测试)对宽恕、惩罚和袖手旁观这三种反应的理解。在所有年龄段,参与者都能区分这三种反应的后果。宽恕会带来更多的积极结果和更少的消极结果,而惩罚和袖手旁观则恰恰相反。随着年龄的增长,参与者对积极结果的预期越来越低,而这种效应在惩罚和无所作为中表现得最为明显。这项研究的结果让我们对三种重要反应策略的推理有了新的认识。
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Child development
Child development Multiple-
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9.20
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149
期刊介绍: As the flagship journal of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), Child Development has published articles, essays, reviews, and tutorials on various topics in the field of child development since 1930. Spanning many disciplines, the journal provides the latest research, not only for researchers and theoreticians, but also for child psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, psychiatric social workers, specialists in early childhood education, educational psychologists, special education teachers, and other researchers. In addition to six issues per year of Child Development, subscribers to the journal also receive a full subscription to Child Development Perspectives and Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development.
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