Jordan, Jennifer; Flynn, Francis; Cohen, Taya R. - 2015
Across four studies, guilt led to forgiveness of others’ transgressions. In Study 1, people prone to experience guilt …-based guilt; both increased forgiveness of others’ transgressions. Further, the effect of guilt on forgiveness was mediated by … identification with the transgressor. In Study 3, we replicated the guilt-forgiveness relationship and examined three other plausible …
