The Psychology of Forgiveness

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This paper addresses specifically the psychology of forgiveness and in particular attempts to identify what psychological characteristics influence the tendency toward forgiveness. The aim of the research includes exploration into the motivational transformation collectively known as forgiveness and what psychological traits seem to foster forgiveness or encourage forgiveness in the individual. It also examines five articles dating 2000 to 2005 conducted by various researchers on the subject of the socially constructed phenomena of forgiveness and the attributes those individuals most likely to forgive display versus those less likely to engage in forgiving behavior.

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Literature Review
Discussion

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"In his study How Do People Conceptualize and Use Forgiveness, Kanz examines the nature of forgiveness, individuals most likely to forgive and the manner in which people conceptualize forgiveness. Specifically the researcher attempts to define how people use and conceptualize interpersonal forgiveness and to introduce a forgiveness attitudes questionnaire to assert that this instrument can be used to explore the manner in which forgiveness is socially constructed. The researcher sampled 155 students form 2 colleges for purposes of this study. "

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