{"id":3167,"date":"2013-05-20T08:41:34","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T13:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/?p=3167"},"modified":"2013-05-09T14:42:08","modified_gmt":"2013-05-09T19:42:08","slug":"an-analysis-of-forgiveness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/?p=3167","title":{"rendered":"An analysis of forgiveness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why do you forgive someone?<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3169\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Bouquet-of-flowers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3169\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3169\" alt=\"Image by BeverlyLR\" src=\"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Bouquet-of-flowers-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Bouquet-of-flowers-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Bouquet-of-flowers-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3169\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image by BeverlyLR<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The answers may vary by the individual, but a group of researchers <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/j.1475-6811.2012.01400.x\/abstract\">recently suggested<\/a> that we are more likely to forgive for the sake of ourselves and for our relationships. When we do forgive for the sake of our relationship, it is likely related to our relationship quality and a decrease in revenge and avoidance.<\/p>\n<p>Forgiveness is a difficult thing to achieve, depending on the infraction committed. Sometimes it takes a lifetime to achieve, but sometimes it can be moments. It is interesting to sit back and reflect on why we forgive. It can provide some insights into ourselves!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do you forgive someone? The answers may vary by the individual, but a group of researchers recently suggested that we are more likely to forgive for the sake of ourselves and for our relationships. When we do forgive for the sake of our relationship, it is likely related to our relationship quality and a decrease in revenge and avoidance.<a href=\"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/?p=3167\"> Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":3169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[167,136],"tags":[11,28,52,90],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-research","tag-acceptance","tag-emotions","tag-human","tag-relationships-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Bouquet-of-flowers.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3167"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3173,"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3167\/revisions\/3173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3167"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=3167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}