aim and background: it appears that depressed people have low self-compassion and forgiveness due to having negative attitudes. in order to test this hypothesis, the current study investigated the role of self-compassion and forgiveness in the prediction of depression severity among university students. methods and materials: in a correlational study during 2010-11, 136 individuals were randoml...

The present study aimed to develop effective moral educational interventions based on social psychology by using stories of moral exemplars. We tested whether motivation to engage in voluntary service as a form of moral behavior was better promoted by attainable and relevant exemplars or by unattainable and irrelevant exemplars. First, experiment 1, conducted in a lab, showed that stories of at...

Participants in student loan programs must repay loans in full regardless of whether they complete college. But many students who take out a loan do not earn a degree (the dropout rate among college students is between 33 to 50 percent). We examine whether insurance, in the form of loan forgiveness in the event of failure to complete college, can be offered, taking into account moral hazard and...

Abstract Theorists often conceive of forgiveness as “wiping the slate clean” or something sort with respect to offender’s moral infraction. This raises a puzzle concerning how (or whether) relevant wrongdoing can continue play role in forgiver’s deliberations, attitudes, and practical orientation toward offender once has taken place. For example, consider an agent who forgives her for act only ...

positive psychology has been established not only to expand and improve the abilities of individuals, but to promote endurance, to improve life quality, and to create a shield against psychiatric symptoms. an enhancement in abilities and positive attributes should be the permanent factors in all treatments, because these interventions decrease disease symptoms, prevent their reversion, and impr...

We used positron emission tomography (PET) to investigate the neural mechanisms underlying the willingness to forgive another person's moral transgression involving deception. During scanning, 12 subjects were asked to judge the forgivability of a perpetrator's moral transgression. These transgressions were described by four kinds of scenarios composed of a combination of two factors: the attit...