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Noor, M (2017) To connect is to be influenced: What determines a third-party's forgiveness attitudes to conflicting groups' violent partisan members? Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 20 (1). 3 - 10. ISSN 1367-2223
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Abstract
The present research seeks to answer the question of what determines an uninvolved third party's forgiveness attitudes toward conflicting groups' violent partisan members. Specifically, Bangladeshi participants read a fictitious interview with a radicalized Palestinian who declared his intention to avenge himself against Israelis for his personal and collective plight by carrying out a suicide bombing attack. Findings reveal that an empathy manipulation (high empathy = other focused or low empathy = objective focused) influenced participants' forgiveness attitudes towards the radicalized Palestinian such that in the high empathy condition participants were more forgiving of the target than participants in the low empathy condition. Moreover, while the strength of their religious identification (Islam) played no significant role, participants' tendency to attribute the target's decision to situational factors fully mediated the effects of empathy on forgiveness.
Item Type: | Article |
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Additional Information: | "This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: To connect is to be influenced: What determines a third-party's forgiveness attitudes to conflicting groups' violent partisan members?, which has been published in final form at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ajsp.12148/full. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving." |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | third party, empathy, forgiveness, situational attributions, partisan group member |
Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology |
Divisions: | Faculty of Natural Sciences > School of Psychology |
Depositing User: | Symplectic |
Date Deposited: | 01 Mar 2017 09:11 |
Last Modified: | 01 Apr 2021 13:44 |
URI: | https://eprints.keele.ac.uk/id/eprint/2956 |