Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5036093 | Personality and Individual Differences | 2017 | 10 Pages |
â¢Reports the development of the Forgiveness IATâ¢Forgiveness IAT predicts spontaneous transgression-specific forgiveness.â¢Testing supports double-dissociation model in IAT research.â¢Forgiveness IAT generally resistant to socially desirable responding.â¢People implicitly prefer forgiveness to punitive responding.
Across nine studies involving NÂ =Â 1174 participants, we report the development and testing of the Forgiveness Implicit Association Test (IAT). We identify appropriate contrast categories and word content (Studies 1-3); address issues related to implicit-explicit convergence (Studies 4 and 5); and test a double dissociation model to examine the conditions under which the Forgiveness IAT predicts transgression-specific forgiveness (Studies 6-9). We also conducted meta-analyses to examine the extent to which the Forgiveness IAT is resistant to socially desirable responding, relative to self-report measures; and the extent to which individuals implicitly prefer forgiveness to several punitive alternatives (e.g., revenge). The Forgiveness IAT appears to be a good complementary measure to existing trait-level self-report forgiveness measures.