Cognitive processes involved in blame and blame-like judgments and in forgiveness and forgiveness-like judgments.

Etienne Mullet; Sheila Rivière; María Teresa Muñoz Sastre

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Cognitive processes involved in blame and blame-like judgments and in forgiveness and forgiveness-like judgments.

May 9, 2007

Mullet E, Rivière S, Sastre MTM. Am J Psychol. 2007;120(1):25-46.

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The researchers presented 32 scenarios involving medical error to participants and compared the cognitive processes involved in blaming or forgiving a doctor for medical error.

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