On the Form and Function of Forgiving: Modeling the Time-Forgiveness Relationship and Testing the Valuable Relationships Hypothesis

Emotion

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 358-376

  McCullough, Michael E ^a   Luna, Lindsey Root ^b   Berry, Jack W ^d   Tabak, Benjamin A ^c   Bono, Giacomo ^e  

^a Department of Biology

^b FERRIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^d SAMFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

change; evolution; forgiveness; multilevel modeling; nonlinear models

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; FORGIVENESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOTIVATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION;

EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOTIVATION; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77953464847     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0019349     Document Type: Article

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