Forgiveness Takes Place on an Attitudinal Continuum from Hostility to Friendliness: Toward a Closer Union of Forgiveness Theory and MeasurementForster, D. E., Billingsley, J., Russell, V. M., McCauley, T. G., Smith, A., Burnette, J. L., Ohtsubo, Y., Schug, J., Lieberman, D., & McCullough, M. E. (2020). Forgiveness takes place on an attitudinal continuum from hostility to friendliness: Toward a closer union of forgiveness theory and measurement. Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, 119(4), 861–880.
This reading finds that forgiveness can be usefully conceptualized as prosocial change along a single attitudinal continuum that ranges from hostility to friendliness.
