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Towards a multifaceted understanding of revenge and forgiveness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2012

Ramzi Fatfouta ,
Arthur Jacobs  and
Angela Merkl
Ramzi Fatfouta
Affiliation:
Dahlem Institute for Neuroimaging of Emotion (D.I.N.E.), Cluster of Excellence “Languages of Emotion”, Freie Universität, Berlin, D-14195 Berlin, Germany. ramzi.fatfouta@fu-berlin.dehttp://www.languages-of-emotion.de/en/ajacobs@zedat.fu-berlin.dehttp://www.languages-of-emotion.de/en/dine/
Arthur Jacobs
Affiliation:
Dahlem Institute for Neuroimaging of Emotion (D.I.N.E.), Cluster of Excellence “Languages of Emotion”, Freie Universität, Berlin, D-14195 Berlin, Germany. ramzi.fatfouta@fu-berlin.dehttp://www.languages-of-emotion.de/en/ajacobs@zedat.fu-berlin.dehttp://www.languages-of-emotion.de/en/dine/ Department of Educational Sciences and Psychology, Freie Universität, Berlin, D-14195 Berlin, Germany
Angela Merkl
Affiliation:
Dahlem Institute for Neuroimaging of Emotion (D.I.N.E.), Cluster of Excellence “Languages of Emotion”, Freie Universität, Berlin, D-14195 Berlin, Germany. ramzi.fatfouta@fu-berlin.dehttp://www.languages-of-emotion.de/en/ajacobs@zedat.fu-berlin.dehttp://www.languages-of-emotion.de/en/dine/ Department of Psychiatry, Charité-University Medicine Berlin, Campus Benjamin Franklin, D-14050 Berlin, Germany. angela.merkl@charite.dehttp://psychiatrie.charite.de/en/
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Abstract

We focus on two aspects: First, we argue that it is necessary to include implicit forgiveness as an additional adaptive behavioral option to the perception of interpersonal transgressions. Second, we present one possible way to investigate the cognitive-affective underpinnings of revenge and forgiveness: a functional MRI (fMRI) approach aiming at integrating forgiveness and revenge mechanisms into a single paradigm.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 36 , Issue 1 , February 2013 , pp. 21
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013

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