Forgive and Remember: The Relationship between Religion and the Recollection of Transgressions

Although world religions extol the virtue of forgiveness, psychological research has uncovered a religion-forgiveness discrepancy in which individual differences in religiousness are positively related to valuing forgiveness, but less strongly related to forgiveness on transgression-specific, state forgiveness measures. The current study examines the relationship between trait religiousness and trait versus state forgiveness, and compares these...