title: Towards a multifaceted understanding of revenge and forgiveness.
abstract: We focus on two aspects: First, we argue that it is necessary to include implicit forgiveness as an additional adaptive behavioral option to the perception of interpersonal transgressions. Second, we present one possible way to investigate the cognitive-affective underpinnings of revenge and forgiveness: a functional MRI (fMRI) approach aiming at integrating forgiveness and revenge mechanisms into a single paradigm.
authors.affiliation: Dahlem Institute for Neuroimaging of Emotion (D.I.N.E.), Cluster of Excellence "Languages of Emotion", Freie Universität, Berlin, D-14195 Berlin, Germany. ramzi.fatfouta@fu-berlin.de
authors.forename: Ramzi
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Fatfouta
authors.forename: Arthur
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Jacobs
authors.forename: Angela
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Merkl
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000374:Aggression / Q000523:psychology*; D003071:Cognition; D061347:Forgiveness; D006801:Humans; D009042:Motivation