TY - JOUR
T1 - Forgiveness and Justice
T2 - A Research Agenda for Social and Personality Psychology
AU - Exline, Julie Juola
AU - Worthington, Everett L.
AU - Hill, Peter
AU - McCullough, Michael E.
PY - 2003/1/1
Y1 - 2003/1/1
N2 - Forgiveness and related constructs (e.g., repentance, mercy, reconciliation) are ripe for study by social and personality psychologists, including those interested in justice. Current trends in social science, law, management, philosophy, and theology suggest a need to expand existing justice frameworks to incorporate alternatives or complements to retribution, including forgiveness and related processes. In this article, we raise five challenging empirical questions about forgiveness. For each question, we briefly review representative research, raise hypotheses, and suggest specific ways in which social and personality psychologists could make distinctive contributions.
AB - Forgiveness and related constructs (e.g., repentance, mercy, reconciliation) are ripe for study by social and personality psychologists, including those interested in justice. Current trends in social science, law, management, philosophy, and theology suggest a need to expand existing justice frameworks to incorporate alternatives or complements to retribution, including forgiveness and related processes. In this article, we raise five challenging empirical questions about forgiveness. For each question, we briefly review representative research, raise hypotheses, and suggest specific ways in which social and personality psychologists could make distinctive contributions.
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U2 - 10.1207/S15327957PSPR0704_06
DO - 10.1207/S15327957PSPR0704_06
M3 - Review article
C2 - 14633470
AN - SCOPUS:0344983296
VL - 7
SP - 337
EP - 348
JO - Personality and Social Psychology Review
JF - Personality and Social Psychology Review
SN - 1088-8683
IS - 4
ER -