Everett L. Worthington

TL;DR: The authors explored whether religious and non-religious individuals conceptualize and respond to humility differently and found that religious participants described themselves as more humble than nonreligious participants, and religious individuals more strongly desired to be described as humble.

TL;DR: Three Lamaze childbirth techniques were analyzed in a 2 × 2 × 3 factorial design and a relationship existed between situation-specific expectancies and pain self-reports and treatment did not differentially affect self-reported pain or anxiety.

TL;DR: The authors found that the basic presumptions of transgression and the idea of cancelling debt were similar across cultures and that the cognitive dimension of forgiveness (which involves virtues that preserve social relationships) was more frequently observed in Chinese idioms than English idioms.

TL;DR: Forgiveness is a motivational transformation that inclines people to inhibit relationship-destructive responses and to behave constructively toward someone who has behaved destructively toward them as mentioned in this paper, and the authors describe a model of forgiveness based on the hypothesis that people forgive others to the extent that they experience empathy for them.

TL;DR: Forgiveness in South Africa: A qualitative review as discussed by the authors explores a Western understanding of the psychology of the process of forgiving in the context of South Africa and other portions of Africa.