Interpersonal forgiving in close relationships
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...Forgiveness is a prosocial process during which negative motivations towards the offender are reduced and replaced with positive motivations [6]....
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...Forgiveness mediates and resolves conflicts to sustain healthy long-term relationships [6]....
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...Forgiveness can be influenced by five factors [110, 111, 112]: • The severity of the offence, • the frequency and severity of previous offences, • the offender’s intent, • the offender’s apology and efforts to repair their action, • previous interactions with the offender, during which they have demonstrated benevolence....
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...It mediates and settles disputes, to sustain healthy long-term relationships [112]....
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...Forgiveness mediates and settles disputes, to sustain healthy long-term relationships [112], can increase the perceived debt of the transgressor to the victim [91], and can reduce stressful reactions to transgressions, thus lowering health risks and promoting health resilience [171]....
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...When people forgive, they become motivated to engage in relationship-constructive, rather than relationship-destructive, actions towards the offender [112]....
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...…studies (e.g., Darby & Schlenker, 1982; Weiner, Graham, Peter, & Zmuidinas, 1991; Worthington & Scherer, 2004), episode recall studies (e.g., McCullough et al., 1997; McCullough et al., 1998), and laboratory experiments (e.g., Ohbuchi, Kameda, & Agarie, 1989; Struthers, Eaton, Santelli,…...
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...We believe that emotional empathy induced among the perceivers of the apology is an indicator of such presentoriented information processing since empathy is facilitated when they are notified the transgressor is experiencing guilt and distress at the moment (McCullough et al., 1997)....
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...For instance, the account-giving literature proposes factors such as responsibility attribution (e.g., Weiner et al., 1991) and emotional empathy (e.g., McCullough et al., 1997) as being influenced by apologies....
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...…processes of forgiveness—a complex of motivational changes in which one becomes decreasingly motivated to retaliate against or to maintain estrangement from the transgressor and increasingly motivated by conciliation and goodwill for the transgressor (McCullough, 2001; McCullough et al., 1997)....
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...Particularly relevant to our interest, Risen and Gilovich (2007) report that victims tend to react forgivingly when given an apology regardless of whether the apology is spontaneous or coerced; in contrast, observers of the predicament distinguish between the two types and accept only the spontaneous apology....
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...…2007), religiousness (McCullough, Bono, & Root, 2005; Tsang, McCullough, & Hoyt, 2005), apology (Exline et al., 2008; McCullough et al., 1998; McCullough et al., 1997), and rumination (Berry, Worthington, Parrott, O’Connor, & Wade, 2001; Braithwaite et al., 2016; Kachadourian, Fincham, &…...
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..., 2005; Depue & Morrone-Strupinsky, 2005; Eaton, Struthers, & Santelli, 2006; McNulty & Russell, 2016; Strelan, 2007), religiousness (McCullough, Bono, & Root, 2005; Tsang, McCullough, & Hoyt, 2005), apology (Exline et al., 2008; McCullough et al., 1998; McCullough et al., 1997), and rumination (Berry, Worthington, Parrott, O’Connor, & Wade, 2001; Braithwaite et al....
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...The association between empathy and forgiveness has been supported with both correlational and experimental data (Fincham, Paleari, & Regalia, 2002; McCullough et al., 1997), as well as with...
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...The association between empathy and forgiveness has been supported with both correlational and experimental data (Fincham, Paleari, & Regalia, 2002; McCullough et al., 1997), as well as with meta-analytic evidence (r=.51, across thirty-two studies, Fehr et al., 2010)....
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...Social psychologists have also addressed interpersonal forgiving from time to time (Darby & Schlenker, 1982; Gahagan & Tedeschi, 1968; Heider, 1958; Horai, Lindskold, Gahagan, & Tedeschi, 1969; Weiner, Graham, Peter, & Zmuidinas, 1991)....
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