{"id":63207,"date":"2017-09-08T17:21:24","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T21:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=63207"},"modified":"2017-09-08T17:52:59","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T21:52:59","slug":"articles-that-make-you-want-to-bang-your-head-against-a-wall-dept-entrepeneur-why-you-should-stop-saying-sorry-according-to-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=63207","title":{"rendered":"Articles that make You want to Bang your head against a Wall Dept&#8211;(Entrepeneur) Why You Should Stop Saying Sorry, According to Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After you hurt someone\u2019s feelings or do something wrong, it turns out that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/article\/274343\" rel=\"follow\">saying sorry<\/a>\u00a0might not be the best solution. In fact, an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/article\/246281\" rel=\"follow\">apology<\/a>\u00a0might just add fuel to the fire, a recent\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/journal.frontiersin.org\/article\/10.3389\/fpsyg.2017.01375\/full\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">study<\/a>\u00a0by researchers from Dartmouth College and the University of Texas has found.<\/p>\n<p>To assess the impact of apologies after social\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/article\/241794\" rel=\"follow\">rejections<\/a>, researchers approached thousands of people and asked them questions and had them participate in experiments. When asked to write \u201ca good way of saying no,\u201d 39 percent of participants included an apology in their notes with the belief that they&#8217;d lighten the situation. However, when they were put on the receiving end of these apologetic notes, they reported feeling more hurt.<\/p>\n<p>Apologies can actually anger people and trigger them to seek revenge, the researchers found. In another experiment, they conducted face-to-face rejections in order to understand how rejectees actually felt after an incident.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/article\/300055\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After you hurt someone\u2019s feelings or do something wrong, it turns out that\u00a0saying sorry\u00a0might not be the best solution. In fact, an\u00a0apology\u00a0might just add fuel to the fire, a recent\u00a0study\u00a0by researchers from Dartmouth College and the University of Texas has<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=63207\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,168,177,129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-pastoral-theology","category-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63207"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63209,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63207\/revisions\/63209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}