Interpersonal forgiving in close relationships
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...Verbal expressions of sympathy for a victim’s suffering and explicit declarations of one’s intention to refrain from harming the victim in the future are influential aspects of effective apologies (Gold & Weiner 2000; McCullough et al. 1997; Nadler & Liviatan 2006; Zechmeister et al. 2004)....
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...Indeed, empathy for the transgressor is the only psychological variable that has, to date, been shown to facilitate forgiveness when induced experimentally (McCullough et al., 1997; Worthington et al., 2000), although experimental research on this issue is still in its infancy....
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...In several correlational studies (McCullough et al., 1997, 1998; Worthington et al., 2000), people’s reports of the extent to which they had forgiven a specific transgressor were highly correlated with the extent to which they experienced empathy for the transgressor....
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...The wellknown effect of transgressors’ apologies on victims’ likelihood of forgiving apparently is almost totally mediated by the effects of the apologies on victims’ empathy for the transgressors (McCullough et al., 1997, 1998)....
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...Indeed, empathy for the transgressor is the only psychological variable that has, to date, been shown to facilitate forgiveness when induced experimentally (McCullough et al., 1997; Worthington et al., 2000), although experimental research on this issue is still in its infancy....
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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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