ScholarPeer’s latest research news and reporting from Frontiers in Psychology. Frontiers in Psychology is a peer-reviewed, open-access scientific journal published by Frontiers that covers research across psychological science, including cognitive, developmental, clinical, social, and behavioral psychology. It publishes experimental, observational, and interdisciplinary studies investigating human cognition, emotion, perception, mental health, personality, and social behavior, advancing understanding of psychological processes and their implications for health, education, and society.
Across three online experiments with 1,563 people, reading a careless repairman’s private thoughts rather than his spoken apology raised forgiveness only when he was clearly at fault, and the gains were small.