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Trust makes you delusional and that’s not all bad: Trusting partners remember transgressions in ways that benefit the relationship
February 27, 2013 by NewsBot
New research is the first to systematically examine the role of trust in biasing memories of transgressions in romantic partnerships. People who are highly trusting tended to remember transgressions in a way that benefits the relationship, remembering partner transgressions as less severe than they originally reported. People low on trust demonstrated the opposite pattern, remembering partner transgressions as being more severe than how they originally reported.