Forgiving Usually Takes Time: A Lesson Learned by Studying Interventions to Promote Forgiveness

By Everett L. Worthington Jr., Taro A. Kurusu, Wanda R. Collins, John W. Berry, J. Ripley, Sasha N. Baier. 2000

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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In Clinical Psychology

1. Everett L. Worthington Jr.
2. Jo-Ann Tsang
3. M. McCullough
4. F. Fincham
5. A. Macaskill
6. E. Hui
7. Tat-sing. Chau
8. John Maltby

In Social Psychology

1. Everett L. Worthington Jr.
2. F. Fincham
3. M. McCullough
4. Jo-Ann Tsang
5. John Maltby
6. A. Macaskill
7. E. Hui
8. Tat-sing. Chau

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Everett L. Worthington Jr.
2. Tat-sing. Chau
3. E. Hui
4. M. McCullough
5. Jo-Ann Tsang
6. John Maltby
7. A. Macaskill
8. F. Fincham

Citations in the corpus

• THE LONGITUDINAL ASSOCIATION BETWEEN FORGIVENESS AND RELATIONSHIP CLOSENESS AND COMMITMENT (2006, background): “It may be easier for partners to empathize with each other in close relationships (Batson, 1987; Batson & Shaw, 1991; McCullough et al., 1998), and empathy has been found to be positively related to forgiveness (McCullough et al., 1997, 1998, 2003; Worthington et al., 2000).”
• Forgiveness, forbearance, and time: the temporal unfolding of transgression-related interpersonal motivations. (2003, background): “In several studies (Fincham, Paleari, & Regalia, 2002; McCullough et al., 1997, 1998; Worthington et al., 2000), people's reports of the extent to which they had forgiven a specific transgressor— or their instantaneous TRIM scores—were highly correlated (i.e., rs Ϸ .60) with the extent to which…”
• The impact of a forgiveness intervention with Hong Kong Chinese children hurt in interpersonal relationships (2009, background): “Forgiveness is a process, and forgiving takes time (Worthington et al., 2000).”
• Forgiveness is an emotion-focused coping strategy that can reduce health risks and promote health resilience: theory, review, and hypotheses (2004, background): “In fact, Worthington et al. (2000), besides reporting the results of three brief interventions, examined data from interventions drawn from four independent laboratories.”
• We are sorry: Intergroup apologies and their tenuous link with intergroup forgiveness (2013, unknown): “Although Study 2 in Philpot and Hornsey (2008) used a pre/post design, it did so over the course of a relatively short period, much shorter than the duration some theorists suggest is needed for observable levels of forgiveness to emerge (see Worthington et al., 2000).”
• Angry memories and thoughts of revenge: The relationship between forgiveness and anger rumination (2005, background): “…2002), there are an array of variables such as neuroticism, anger, anxiety, depression, hostility and resentment that are thought to act as inhibitory variables (Davenport, 1991; Enright, Gassin, & Wu, 1992; Kaplan, 1992; Maltby et al., 2001; Williams & Williams, 1993; Worthington et al., 2000a).”