When people were asked to rehearse a grudge, their heart rate... | Charlotte van Oyen Witvliet and colleagues

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When people were asked to rehearse a grudge, their heart rate, blood pressure and sweat response climbed. When the same people imagined forgiving the same offender, those measures fell back toward rest.

Charlotte van Oyen Witvliet and colleagues, 2001 · study of seventy-one participants recalling a real offender

Witvliet, Ludwig and Vander Laan, Granting forgiveness or harboring grudges: Implications for emotion, physiology, and health, Psychological Science, 12(2), 117-123, 2001

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Charlotte van Oyen Witvliet and colleagues: When people were asked to rehearse a grudge, their heart rate, blood pressure and sweat response climbed. When the same people imagined forgiving the same offender, those measures fell back toward rest.