@article{ref1,
title="Bright side of the MAOA-uVNTR on trait and situational forgiveness",
journal="Psychoneuroendocrinology",
year="2023",
author="Gong, Pingyuan and Zhang, Jieting and Liu, Jinting and He, LinLin and Guo, Wenxuan",
volume="151",
number="",
pages="e106057-e106057",
abstract="The stress-and-coping theory of forgiveness posits that forgiveness and aggression are alternative ways of coping with stress of interpersonal offences. Inspired by the link between aggression and MAOA-uVNTR (a genetic variant involving in catabolism of monoamines), we investigated the relationship between this variant and forgiveness with two studies. Study 1 examined the relationship between the MAOA-uVNTR and trait forgiveness in students, and study 2 examined the effect of this variant on third-party forgiveness in response to situational offences in male inmates. The results showed that the MAOA-H (a high activity allele) was associated with higher trait forgiveness in male students and greater third-party forgiveness to accidentally committed harm and attempted but failed harm in male inmates than the MAOA-L. These findings highlight the bright side of MAOA-uVNTR on trait and situational forgiveness.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0306-4530",
doi="10.1016/j.psyneuen.2023.106057",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2023.106057"
}