Transgression Severity and Forgiveness: Different Moderators for Objective and Subjective Severity

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Forgiveness in Marriage: Current Status and Future Directions (2006, background): “This is one reason why Gandhi (2000) stated that ‘‘the weak can never forgive.”
Forgiveness and marital quality: Precursor or consequence in well-established relationships? (2007, methodology): “Following a common practice in prior research we used an offence specific assessment of forgiveness (Fincham et al., 2005; Karremans et al., 2003; McCullough, Worthington, & Rachal, 1997).”
The road to forgiveness: a meta-analytic synthesis of its situational and dispositional correlates. (2010, background): “Apologies may mitigate victims’ negative perceptions of their offenders (Fehr & Gelfand, in press), as should victims’ understanding of their offenders’ perspectives (Exline, Baumeister, Zell, Kraft, & Witvliet, 2008) and perceptions of the severity of harm incurred (Fincham et al., 2005).”