TY - JOUR
T1 - Sweet revenge: Diabetic status as a predictor of interpersonal forgiveness
AU - DeWall, C.N.
AU - Pond, R.S.
AU - Bushman, B.J.
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Conflict pervades social life. To forgive others, people must control their vengeful impulses. The efficiency by which the body uses glucose, an indicator of self-control, might have direct implications for interpersonal forgiveness. In four studies (N= 693), we tested the hypothesis that a physiological marker of deficient glucose use (i.e., type 2 diabetic symptoms) relates to less forgiveness. Higher type 2 diabetic symptoms correlated negatively with a dispositional tendency to forgive others (Study 1) and correlated positively with unforgiving motivations toward hypothetical transgressors (Study 2) and actual transgressors (Study 3). Diabetic symptoms correlated negatively with cooperative behavior in the Prisoner's Dilemma Game (Study 4). These findings provide the first evidence that forgiveness depends on how efficiently the body uses glucose. © 2010 Elsevier Ltd.
AB - Conflict pervades social life. To forgive others, people must control their vengeful impulses. The efficiency by which the body uses glucose, an indicator of self-control, might have direct implications for interpersonal forgiveness. In four studies (N= 693), we tested the hypothesis that a physiological marker of deficient glucose use (i.e., type 2 diabetic symptoms) relates to less forgiveness. Higher type 2 diabetic symptoms correlated negatively with a dispositional tendency to forgive others (Study 1) and correlated positively with unforgiving motivations toward hypothetical transgressors (Study 2) and actual transgressors (Study 3). Diabetic symptoms correlated negatively with cooperative behavior in the Prisoner's Dilemma Game (Study 4). These findings provide the first evidence that forgiveness depends on how efficiently the body uses glucose. © 2010 Elsevier Ltd.
U2 - 10.1016/j.paid.2010.06.030
DO - 10.1016/j.paid.2010.06.030
M3 - Article
SN - 0191-8869
VL - 49
SP - 823
EP - 826
JO - Personality and Individual Differences
JF - Personality and Individual Differences
IS - 7
ER -