Citation

Zhou Y, Lu J, Tang X, Hu C, Wang H. Soc. Behav. Pers. 2018; 46(4): 607-616.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, New Zealand, Society for Personality Research)

DOI

10.2224/sbp.6635

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

To explore the neuro-mechanism of the time course of processing a hurt situation, we analyzed event-related potentials (ERPs) generated in the brain in response to stimuli in individuals with different degrees of forgiveness. Participants were 216 university students. Of the early ERP components, the negative-deflecting N1 was modulated neither by degree of forgiveness nor by the hurt situation, and the positive-deflecting P2 was larger for low-forgiveness than for high-forgiveness participants, and for low-hurt than for high-hurt situations. The N2, which identifies and encodes stimulus, was enhanced in the high-forgiveness group and for high-hurt situations. Importantly, the late positive component (LPC) stage of stimulus evaluation was larger in the high-forgiveness group for high-hurt situations, but in the low- forgiveness group was evident for low-hurt situations. These data indicate that the modulation of forgiveness on processing hurt situations occurs at the late stage of information processing.

Language: en

Keywords

event-related potential; forgiveness; hurt situation; late positive component