Authors
Ruddy Faure, Francesca Righetti, Grace Larson, Maria Fernanda Cuellar, Antonis Koutsoumpis, Maria Zwicker, Wilhelm Hofmann
Publication date
2021/7
Journal
Social Psychological and Personality Science
Volume
12
Issue
5
Pages
708-718
Publisher
Sage Publications
Description
Recent work suggests that implicit partner evaluations have long-term implications for relationship success. However, little evidence shows whether and under which conditions implicit partner evaluations affect relationship maintenance processes in daily life, especially those exhibited in situations that may be highly decisive for the fate of the relationship, such as when partners hurt each other. Drawing upon dual-process theories, we predicted that, when executive control is limited—either as a trait or a state—people’s implicit partner evaluations influence forgiveness toward their partner. Results revealed that when temporarily impairing people’s executive control with an experimental manipulation (Study 1), or for people with lower trait executive control (Study 2), more positive implicit partner evaluations were associated with more forgiveness, both in laboratory settings and in an 8-day diary. These findings …
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