Psychological Development and Education ›› 2021, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (6): 774-783.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2021.06.03

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The Impact of Spontaneous Perspective Taking on the Forgiveness to Interpersonal Harm of Varying Severity

FAN Ruolin1, RU Taotao2, ZHENG Yunjia1, XU Guiping3   

  1. 1. Department of Applied Psychology, Guangdong University of Finance, Guangzhou 510521;
    2. National Center for International Research on Green Optoelectronics, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631;
    3. College of Chinese Language and Culture, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510610
  • Published:2021-11-16

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Abstract: Combined with self-report questionnaire and the AMP implicit attitude test, "experiencing the other side" paradigm is designed and used to explore the impact of spontaneous perspective taking and verbal persuasion on forgiveness to interpersonal harm in different severity, focusing on the role of spontaneous perspective taking in forgiveness via 2 experiments. Results indicate that:regardless of severity of interpersonal harms, (1) compared with spontaneous perspective taking, verbal persuasion can facilitate explicit forgiveness more effectively; (2) spontaneous perspective taking can significantly reduce explicit negative attitude to transgressors, thereby facilitating explicit forgiveness. By contrast, verbal persuasion increases the explicit negative attitude, hindering explicit forgiveness. The outcomes suggest that the way to resolve conflicts has different effects on forgiveness, and noticeably, in a real-time interactive activity, a process of perspective taking can be triggered automatically, which can affect interpersonal activities implicitly.

Key words: spontaneous perspective taking, verbal persuasion, interpersonal harm, implicit forgiveness, explicit forgiveness

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