Forgiveness: Who Does It and How Do They Do It?

By M. McCullough. 2001

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology

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In Clinical Psychology

1. Everett L. Worthington Jr.
2. Jo-Ann Tsang
3. M. McCullough
4. F. Fincham
5. Steven J. Sandage
6. Peter Strelan
7. E. Hui
8. Tanya Covic

In Social Psychology

1. Everett L. Worthington Jr.
2. M. McCullough
3. Jo-Ann Tsang
4. F. Fincham
5. Steven J. Sandage
6. Peter Strelan
7. J. Hook
8. Michael J. A. Wohl

Citations in the corpus

• Toward a Multicultural Positive Psychology: (2003, background): “For example, McCullough (2001) offered one psychological definition of forgiveness as a “prosocial” transformation in motivations toward an offender where motivations become less vengeful and avoidant and more benevolent (p. 194).”
• The impact of a forgiveness intervention with Hong Kong Chinese children hurt in interpersonal relationships (2009, background): “McCullough and his associates (McCullough, 2001 ; McCullough, Fincham, & Tsang, 2003 ), on the other hand, emphasise a motivational view.”
• GENDER AND FORGIVENESS: A META-ANALYTIC REVIEW AND RESEARCH AGENDA (2008, background): “For instance, interpersonal models that incorporate forgiveness include reconciliation–based models (Sapolsky & Share, 2004), evolutionary–based models (McCullough, 2001), and interdependence theory–based models (for a review see Rusbult & Van Lange, 2003).”
• Paths to interpersonal forgiveness: The roles of personality, disposition to forgive and contextual factors in predicting forgiveness following a specific offence (2008, background): “Agreeableness incorporates attributes such as empathy and generosity (McCullough, 2001).”
• Psychometric and Rationalization Accounts of the Religion‐Forgiveness Discrepancy (2005, background): “In comparison with the rich theological history of forgiveness, the psychological study of forgiveness has emerged only recently (for reviews, see Enright & Coyle, 1998; McCullough, 2001).”
• A REVIEW OF FORGIVENESS PROCESS MODELS AND A COPING FRAMEWORK TO GUIDE FUTURE RESEARCH (2006, background): “McCullough and Worthington’s (1994) review indicated an abundance of process models of forgiveness in the literature, also referred to as “task–stage” models, but a complete absence of empirical support for any of these models.”
• Forgiveness, forbearance, and time: the temporal unfolding of transgression-related interpersonal motivations. (2003, background): “Both subscales have high internal consistency (i.e., ␣ Ն .85), moderate test–retest stability (e.g., 8-week test–retest rs ϭ approximately .50), and evidence of convergent and discriminant validity (McCullough et al., 1998, 2001).”
• We are sorry: Intergroup apologies and their tenuous link with intergroup forgiveness (2013, background): “Some theorists emphasise the interpersonal nature of forgiveness (Flanigan, 1994), while others state that it is an intrapsychic process (McCullough, 2000, 2001; Murphy & Hampton, 1988), and many maintain that it is both (Pargament, McCullough, & Thoresen, 2000; Zechmeister & Romero, 2002).”
• Collectivism, Forgiveness, and Social Harmony (2009, background): “Thus, in collectivistic cultures, individual personality variables, such as agreeableness and neuroticism, are expected to be less strongly related to forgiveness than McCullough (2001) found in individualistic cultures (see Tsaung, Eaves, Nir, Jerskey, & Lyons, 2005).”