Why do people forgive the guy who burned their house down, but still hate that one relative who had a nasty tone while thanking them for a birthday present? Heres why we nurse grudges about small things, but forgive the big ones. We seem to have a kind of pettiness built into our nature. We will watch soppy movies about the redemption of murderers, or long tv series about gleeful serial killers, but have a character in a movie litter and we want them in prison. Our real lives are not exempt from this. We can nurse a grudge against someone who gave us a dirty look for years. When someone we love screams at us, we forgive them in a few days.-(taken from Why we hold grudges-by Ester Inglis Arkel-psychologist-io9
Posted on: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 10:41:02 +0000
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