title: It takes more to forgive: the role of executive control.
abstract: The target article’s evolutionary approach provides an excellent framework for understanding when and why people retaliate or forgive. We argue that recent findings on the basic processes in forgiveness – particularly, the role of executive control – can further refine the authors’ proposed model. Specifically, the lack of executive control may restrict the explanatory power of relationship value and exploitation risk.
authors.affiliation: Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University Nijmegen, 6500 HE Nijmegen, The Netherlands. j.karremans@psych.ru.nl
authors.forename: Johan C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Karremans
authors.forename: Reine C
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: van der Wal
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000374:Aggression / Q000523:psychology*; D003071:Cognition; D061347:Forgiveness; D006801:Humans; D009042:Motivation