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Interpersonal forgiving in close relationships
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Evidence is found consistent with the hypotheses that the relationship between receiving an apology from and forgiving one's offender is a function of increased empathy for the offender and that forgiving is uniquely related to conciliatory behavior and avoidance behavior toward the offending partner.Abstract:
Forgiving is a motivational transformation that inclines people to inhibit relationship-destructive responses and to behave constructively toward someone who has behaved destructively toward them. The authors describe a model of forgiveness based on the hypothesis that people forgive others to the extent that they experience empathy for them. Two studies investigated the empathy model of forgiveness. In Study 1, the authors developed measures of empathy and forgiveness. The authors found evidence consistent with the hypotheses that (a) the relationship between receiving an apology from and forgiving one's offender is a function of increased empathy for the offender and (b) that forgiving is uniquely related to conciliatory behavior and avoidance behavior toward the offending partner. In Study 2, the authors conducted an intervention in which empathy was manipulated to examine the empathy-forgiving relationship more closely. Results generally supported the conceptualization of forgiving as a motivational phenomenon and the empathy-forgiving link.read more
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Understanding Betrayals in Marriage: A Synthesized Model of Forgiveness
TL;DR: A synthesized model of forgiveness is described using constructs from multiple theories, including forgiveness, trauma recovery, cognitive-behavioral, family systems, and insight-oriented theories, which seem to parallel a person's natural response to traumatic stress.
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Angry memories and thoughts of revenge: The relationship between forgiveness and anger rumination
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Letting bygones be bygones: further evidence for the validity of the Tendency to Forgive scale
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TL;DR: The authors examined the validity of three putative measures of dispositional forgiveness, as well as a measure of trait rumination, with respect to measures of mental health and forgiveness for a specific offense.
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Overcoming competitive victimhood and facilitating forgiveness through re-categorization into a common victim or perpetrator identity ☆
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A socio-relational framework of sex differences in the expression of emotion.
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