A study was done with Christian college students to determine the relationship between grace salience, remorse, and reparative action in the context of a past transgression. Grace salience involves the process of making God’s grace cognitively prominent. In the context of dual-process modeling, grace salience involves making the construct of God’s grace cognitively explicit and the focus of attention for an individual. Participants recalled a past experience where they harmed someone. Before the grace salience or control intervention, there were no differences in desire for reparative action and guilt or shame self-statements. However, after the intervention, compared to the control, the grace salience intervention produced a greater desire for reparative action and greater tendency to agree with guilt self-statements. When feelings of remorse were assessed after the experimental manipulations, higher levels of sorrow and brokenness predicted greater desire for reparative action, higher levels of shame and brokenness predicted higher agreement with shame self-statements, and higher levels of guilt and brokenness predicted greater agreement with guilt self-statements.

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愿恩典比比皆是：使上帝的恩典在认知上突出可能会增加修复行动

对基督教大学生进行了一项研究，以确定在过去的犯罪背景下，恩典突出、悔恨和补救行动之间的关系。恩典显着性涉及使上帝的恩典在认知上突出的过程。在双重过程建模的背景下，恩典显着性涉及使上帝恩典的构造在认知上明确，并成为个人关注的焦点。参与者回忆了过去他们伤害某人的经历。在恩典突显或控制干预之前，对修复行动的渴望与内疚或羞耻的自我陈述没有差异。然而，在干预之后，与对照组相比，恩典显着性干预产生了更大的修复行动的愿望和更大的同意内疚自我陈述的倾向。