Granting Forgiveness or Harboring Grudges: Implications for Emotion, Physiology, and Health

By C. Witvliet, T. Ludwig, Kelly L. Vander Laan. Psychology Science, 2001

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology

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When Talk Is Not Cheap: Substantive Penance and Expressions of Intent in Rebuilding Cooperation (2002, background): “…requires effort from the person who was originally wronged and may entail at least as much risk as initial cooperation in a new interaction, but it also gives people the opportunity to rebuild cooperative relations, reduce negative affect, and increase positive affect (Witvliet et al. 2001).”
Forgiveness as a Coping Strategy to Allow School Students to Deal With the Effects of Being Bullied: Theoretical and Empirical Discussion (2009, background): “Forgiveness has many immediate benefits (Witvliet et al., 2001), but it is also effective as a delayed response to transgressions (Worthington & Scherer, 2004), and so students could be equipped with forgiveness for use at a later date, when they are ready to overcome their negative emotions.”
EXPERIENTIAL AVOIDANCE AND FORGIVENESS AS MEDIATORS IN THE RELATION BETWEEN TRAUMATIC INTERPERSONAL EVENTS AND POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER SYMPTOMS (2005, background): “Witvliet, Ludwig, and Vander Lann (2001) utilized a within–subjects design and psychophysiological assessment to study the impact of forgiving and unforgiving response styles on physiological measures related to health.”
Effective Stress Management (2012, background): “Indeed, a large number of researchers have argued in favor of the benefits of positive emotions relative to general health and well-being (e.g., Fredrickson, 1998; Richman et al., 2005; Witvliet, Ludwig, & Laan, 2001).”
An affirmed self and a better apology: The effect of self-affirmation on transgressors' responses to victims. (2014, background): “An impressive amount of scholarship has demonstrated the benefits of forgiveness and reconciliation (e.g., Karremans & Van Lange, 2004; Witvliet et al., 2001) and has identified processes—such as comprehensive apologies—that promote reconciliation (Fehr et al., 2010).”
DOES ACTIVATING JUSTICE HELPORHURT IN PROMOTING FORGIVENESS (2005, background): “Only until recently, social scientists have started to acknowledge the important role of forgiveness for understanding important life outcomes, such as relationship well-being, as well as psychological and physical well-being (e.g., Fincham, 2000; Karremans & Van Lange, 2004; Karremans, Van Lange, O”
The tendency to forgive in dating and married couples: The role of attachment and relationship satisfaction (2004, background): “Forgiving thoughts have also been shown to lead to lower physiological stress responses ( Witvliet, Ludwig, & Vander Lann, 2001 ).”
Dimensions of forgiveness: The views of laypersons (2004, methodology): “Apart from these basic assumptions, however, researchers concede that there is no universal definition of forgiveness (Witvliet et al., 2001), no consensus on its most important dimensions (Toussaint et al., 2001), and no general understanding of the steps and processes involved (Denton & Martin,…”