%0 Journal Article
%T American conscience and the coming peace
%J Journal of abnormal and social psychology
%D 1943
%A Sanford, N.
%V 38
%N 2
%P 158-165
%X <p><br/>While we are warned of the dangers of revenge and selfishness in postwar planning, we should recognize the opposed dangers of too much self-abnegation. Our puritanism leads to repressed aggression and guilt feelings in place of punishment of offenders; but complete forgiveness would not be understood by Germans or Japanese and would weaken the cause of future peace. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)</p><p />
%G 
%I American Psychological Association
%@ 0096-851X
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/h0059067