TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2018//
TI  - Modulation of forgiveness on processing hurt situations: a study of event-related potentials
JO  - Social behavior and personality
A1  - Zhou, Yangen
A1  - Lu, Jiamei
A1  - Tang, Xiaochen
A1  - Hu, Chaoyi
A1  - Wang, Haibin
SP  - 607
EP  - 616
VL  - 46
IS  - 4
N2  - 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.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0301-2212
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.2224/sbp.6635
ID  - ref1
ER  -