Rumination
In emotional response to transgression people can become vulnerable to stewing, ruminating, feeling unforgiveness and holding grudges. They replay the event repeatedly, in their minds, elaborating and exploring the negative consequences for themselves or their relationships.
Rumination triggers emotion. Ruminating about a sad situation, they may become depressed. Ruminating about injustice and frustrated goals, they may become angry. If they ruminate about potential harm, they may become fearful and anxious.
Sometimes rumination is unbidden, other times we invite it. If rumination is self-contained, it's, relatively, harmless. But if it's spontaneous and can not be stopped, aroused negative emotion increases. Negative emotion triggers associative, motivational and emotional networks that arouse motives, affecting appraisal and behavior.
If the negative emotions of anger, fear, anxiety or unforgiveness are generated, the stronger the emotion, the more emotion activates associative networks. Incidentally, if rumination is not emotionally involving, the associative networks are not triggered.
The motivation changes how people appraise ongoing or potential future relationships.
Forgiveness and Reconciliation
Evertt L. Worthington, Jr.
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