Forgiveness: Theory, research, and practice.

By M. McCullough, K. Pargament, C. Thoresen. 2000

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Citations in the corpus

• The Amplifying and Buffering Effects of Virtuousness in Downsized Organizations (2006, background): “Forgiveness is a specific action that occurs when people dissolve negative feelings, psychic pain, or desire for revenge that follow harmful or offensive actions (Bright, 2005; Bright et al., in press; McCullough and Worthington, 1994; McCullough et al., 2000).”
• A REVIEW OF FORGIVENESS PROCESS MODELS AND A COPING FRAMEWORK TO GUIDE FUTURE RESEARCH (2006, background): “Beyond expressions of remorse or apology, little is known about the perspective of the wrongdoer (McCullough et al., 2000), and how relationship dynamics influence the forgiveness process for both the wrongdoer and the victim.”
• Forgiveness, forbearance, and time: the temporal unfolding of transgression-related interpersonal motivations. (2003, background): “This point of consensus led McCullough, Pargament, and Thoresen (2000) to propose that intraindividual prosocial change toward a transgressor is a foundational and uncontroversial feature of forgiveness.”
• TARGET ARTICLE: Stumbling Blocks on the Religious Road: Fractured Relationships, Nagging Vices, and the Inner Struggle to Believe (2002, unknown): “Drawing on research on interpersonal forgiveness (for reviews, see McCullough et al., 2000; Worthington, 1998), we might suggest that people will feel less angry toward God if they do not believe that God caused the event, if theyviewGod’s intentionsaspositive,or if they can see some good outcome…”
• Measuring Multiple Dimensions of Religion and Spirituality for Health Research (2003, background): “In the psychotherapeutic literature, healing, in the spiritual sense, is often linked with forgiveness; however, research in this area has hardly begun (McCullough, Pargament, and Thoresen 2000).”
• Forgiveness and purpose in life as spiritual mechanisms of recovery from substance use disorders (2010, background): “Forms of forgiveness can be interpersonal or intrapersonal and directed toward others or toward one’s self (McCullough et al. 2000).”