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RECERCAT author Lichtenfeld, Stephanie author Maier, Markus author Buechner, Vanessa author Fernandez Capo, Maria 2026-01-24T15:14:21Z 2026-01-24T15:14:21Z 2019-06-25 Lichtenfeld, Stephanie; Maier, Markus; Buechner, Vanessa[et al.]. The Influence of Decisional and Emotional Forgiveness on Attributions. Frontiers in Psychology, 2019, 10, 1425. Disponible en <https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01425/full>. Fecha de acceso: 23 ene. 2026. DOI:10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01425 1664-1078 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12328/5179 https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01425 Research on forgiveness suggests that forgiveness is an emotion-focused coping process important for clinical settings as it can promote both physical and mental health (Worthington et al., 2005; Witvliet and McCullough, 2007). Investigating antecedents of forgiveness, empirical studies and theoretical models propose that attributions influence forgiveness. However, hardly any studies or theoretical models have ever looked at the possibility that this relationship may be reciprocal in nature and whether forgiveness also impacts a victim’s attributions has not been investigated. The present, highly powered (n = 969) study seeks to fill this gap and provides the first empirical support that emotional forgiveness has a strong influence on subsequent attributions. Specifically, individuals, who have emotionally forgiven a transgression, hold the transgressor less responsible for the offense compared to those in the decisional forgiveness and control condition. Moreover, the findings conceptually replicate previous research (Lichtenfeld et al., 2015) by demonstrating that emotional, but not decisional forgiveness affects cognition and, thus, emotional and decisional forgiveness should be treated as distinct facets in the forgiveness process. Implications of these results for clinical and health psychology are discussed. eng © 2019 Lichtenfeld, Maier, Buechner and Fernández Capo. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. Emotional forgiveness Decisional forgiveness Attributions Forgiveness Emotion Perdón emocional Perdón decisional Atribuciones Perdón Emoción Perdó emocional Perdó decisional Atribucions Perdó Emoció The Influence of Decisional and Emotional Forgiveness on Attributions info:eu-repo/semantics/article