Forgiveness
Julia Juola Exline, Associate professor of Psychology at Case Western Reserve University, says she was "aggravated" by the results of her experiments with forgiveness. Men kept turning up as less forgiving and more vengeful than women. "The gender difference is not anything that we predicted... We kept trying to explain it away, but it kept repeating in the experiments", said Exline (EurekAlert, 2008). In an article released March 1st, Exline et al (2008) cover seven of these experiments from 1998-2005. The main conclusion is that people are more forgiving if they see themselves as capable of the offense; and that encouraging empathy was more effective in creating forgiveness in men than in women.
You may remember Exline's co-author, Roy Baumeister, from his "Gender Warriors please go home" speech last summer ( 2007).
In previous work, Exline reported that narcissistic, "entitled" people had a harder time forgiving (EurekAlert, 2005). Now, everyone watch while Dan4th scuttles off to cull previous D-Blogs about "narcissism" and completely fails to find any... Right. Change tactics.
So, see if you can follow me here. This is logically swiss cheese, but I'm enjoying the thought experiment: People who feel more entitled are less likely to forgive. People who can imagine themselves committing the offense are more likely to forgive. So, people who feel more entitled are less able to picture themselves committing an offense? That seems odd to me. I mean, I have an enormous ego, and I've always sort of assumed I'd make a fantastic criminal if I decided to pursue a life of supervillainy. Doesn't everyone?
You may remember Exline's co-author, Roy Baumeister, from his "Gender Warriors please go home" speech last summer ( 2007).
In previous work, Exline reported that narcissistic, "entitled" people had a harder time forgiving (EurekAlert, 2005). Now, everyone watch while Dan4th scuttles off to cull previous D-Blogs about "narcissism" and completely fails to find any... Right. Change tactics.
So, see if you can follow me here. This is logically swiss cheese, but I'm enjoying the thought experiment: People who feel more entitled are less likely to forgive. People who can imagine themselves committing the offense are more likely to forgive. So, people who feel more entitled are less able to picture themselves committing an offense? That seems odd to me. I mean, I have an enormous ego, and I've always sort of assumed I'd make a fantastic criminal if I decided to pursue a life of supervillainy. Doesn't everyone?