The reference list contains recently published, in press, or submitted research articles on forgiveness, reconciliation, and restoration.

Reference List: Forgiveness, Reconciliation, and Restoration. Complied by Geoffrey W. Sutton, Ph.D., Evangel University, 2005. This is a listing of recent articles published in peer reviewed journals or manuscripts that are either in press, or submitted for publication. I have included a few recent scholarly books but I excluded most books that are designed for the general public. For the most part, the listings conform to APA style.

Aquino, K., Tripp, T. M., & Bies, R. J. (2001). How employees respond to personal offense: The effects of blame attribution, victim status, and offender status on revenge and reconciliation in the workplace. Journal of Applied Psychology, 86, 52-59. Bennett, M. & Dewberry, C. (1994). "Ive said Im sorry, havent I?": A study of the identity implications and constraints that apologies create for their recipients. Current Psychology, 13, 10-20. Bennett, M. and Earwalker, D. (2001). Victims responses to apologies: The effects of offender responsibility and offense severity. The Journal of Social Psychology, 134, 457-464. Berry, J. W. & Worthington, E. L., Jr. (2001). Forgivingness, relationship quality, stress while imagining relationship events, and physical mental health. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 48, 447455. Berry, J. W., Worthington, E. L. Jr., O'Connor, L. E., Parrott, L. III, & Wade, N. G. (2005). Forgivingness, vengeful rumination, and affective traits. Journal of Personality, 73, 183-225. Brown, R. P., & Phillips, A. (2005). Letting bygones be bygones: Further evidence for the validity of the Tendency to Forgive scale. Personality and Individual Differences, 38, 627-638. Brose, L. A., Rye, M. S., Lutz-Zois, C., & Ross, S. R. (2005). Forgiveness and personality traits. Personality and Individual

Differences, 39, 35-46. Carson, J. W., Keefe, F. J., Goli, V., Fras, A. M., Lynch, T. R., Thorp, S. R., & Buechler, J. L. (2005). Forgiveness and chronic low back pain: A preliminary study examining the relationship of forgiveness to pain, anger, and psychological distress. Journal of Pain, 6, 84-91. Christodoulidi, F. (2005). Forgiveness and the healing process: A central therapeutic concern. British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 33, 141-142. Coyle, C. T. & Enright, R. D. (1997). Forgiveness intervention with postabortion men. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 65, 1042-1046. Enright, R. D. & Coyle, C. T. (1998). Researching the process model of forgiveness within psychological interventions. In E. L. Worthington, Jr. (Ed.), Dimensions of forgiveness: Psychological research and theological perspectives (pp.139-161). Philadelphia: Templeton Foundation Press. Enright R. D., & Gassin, E. A. (1992). Forgiveness: A developmental view. Journal of Moral Education, 21, 99-114. Fincham, F. D, Beach, S. R. H., & Davila, J. (2004). Forgiveness and conflict resolution in marriage. Journal of Family Psychology, 18, 72-81. Fincham, F. D., Jackson, H., & Beach, S. R. H. (in press). Transgression severity and forgiveness: Different moderators for objective severity. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology. Fincham, F. D., & Kashdan, T. D. (in press). Facilitating forgiveness: Developing group and community interventions. In P. A. Linley & S. Joseph (Eds.), Positive psychology in practice. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons. Finkel, E. J., Rusbult, C. E., Kumashiro, M., & Hannon, P. A. (2002). Dealing with betrayal in close relationships: Does commitment promote forgiveness? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 82, 956-974. Freedman, S. R. & Enright, R. D. (1996). Forgiveness as an intervention goal with incest survivors. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 64, 983-992.

Friesen, M. D., Fletcher, G. J. O., & Overall, N. C. (2005). A dyadic assessment of forgiveness in intimate relationships. Personal Relationships, 12, 61-77. Gordon, K. C., Baucom, D. H., & Snyder, D. K. (2005). An integrative intervention for promoting recovery from extramarital affairs. Journal of Marital & Family Therapy, 30, 213-231. Gordon, K. C., Burton, S., & Porter, L. (2004). Predicting the intentions of women in domestic violence shelters to return to partners: Does forgiveness play a role? Journal of Family Psychology, 18, 331-338. Hall, J. H. & Fincham, F. D. (in press). Self-forgiveness: The stepchild of forgiveness research. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology. Harber, K. D., & Wenberg, K. E. (2005). Emotional disclosure and closeness toward offenders. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 31, 734-746. Hodgins, H. S., Liebeskind, E., & Schwartz, W. (1996). Getting out of hot water: Facework in social predicaments. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 71, 300-314. Hoyt, W. T., Fincham, F., McCullough, M. E., Maio, G. & Davila, J. (in press). Responses to interpersonal transgressions in families: Forgivingness, forgivability, and relationship-specific effects. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Huang, S. T., & Enright, R. D. (2000). Forgiveness and anger related emotions in Taiwan: Implications for therapy. Psychotherapy, 37, 71-79. Hughes, R. K., & Armstrong, J. H. (1995, April 3). Why adulterous pastors should not be restored. Christianity Today, 39, 33-36. Ingersoll-Dayton, B., & Krause, N. (2005). Self-forgiveness: A component of mental health in later life. Research on Aging, 27, 267-289. Kachadourian, L., Fincham, F. D., & Davila, J. (2005). Attitudinal ambivalence, rumination and forgiveness of partner transgressions in marriage. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 31, 334342.

Karremans, J. C., & Van Lange, P. A. M. (2005). Does activating justice help or hurt in promoting forgiveness? Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 41 290-297. Karremans, J.C., Van Lange, P. A. M., & Holland, R. W. (in press). Forgiveness and its associations with prosocial thinking, feeling, and doing beyond the relationship with the offender. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. Karremans, J. C., Van Lange, P. A. M., Ouwerkerk, J. W., & Kluwer, E. S. (2003). When forgiving enhances psychological wellbeing: The role of interpersonal commitment. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 84, 1011-1026. Kanz, J. E. (2000). How do people conceptualize and use forgiveness? The Forgiveness Attitudes Questionnaire. Counseling and Values, 44, 174-186. Kearns, J. & Fincham, F. D. (2005). Victim and perpetrator accounts of interpersonal transgressions: Self-serving or relationship-serving biases? Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 31, 321-333. Kim, P. H., Ferrin, D. L., Cooper, C. D., & Dirks, K. T. (2004). Removing the shadow of suspicion: The effects of apology versus denial for repairing competence- versus integrity-based trust violations. Journal of Applied Psychology, 89, 104-118. Lawler, K. A., Younger, J. W., Piferi, R. L., Jobe, R. L., Edmondson, K., & Jones, W. H. (in press). The unique effects of forgiveness on health: An exploration of pathways Journal of Behavioral Medicine. Luskin, F. M. (2004) The art and science of forgiveness. In Schlitz, M., Amorok, T., and Micozzi, M., Consciousness and Healing: Integral Approaches to Mind Body Medicine, (pp. 335-341). New York: Churchill Livingston. Luskin, F. M. (1999). The effect of forgiveness training on psychosocial factors in college-age adults. Dissertation Abstracts International, 60(4-A) (Oct 1999): 1026. McCullough, M.E. (1996). Forgiveness as altruism: A socialpsychological theory of interpersonal forgiveness and tests of its validity. Dissertation Abstracts International, 56, (9-B), 5224. McCullough, M.E., Bellah, G.C., Kilpatrick, S.D., & Johnson, J.L.

(2001). Vengefulness: Relationships with forgiveness, rumination, well-being, and the big five. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 27, 601-610. McCullough, M. E., Fincham, F. D., & Tsang, J. (2003). Forgiveness, forbearance, and time: The temporal unfolding of transgression-related interpersonal motivations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 84, 540-557. McCullough, M. E., Rachal, K. C., Sandage, S. J., Worthington, E. L., Jr., Brown, S. W., & Hight, T. L. (1998). Interpersonal forgiving in close relationships II: Theoretical elaboration and measurement. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 75, 1586-1603. McCullough, M.E. & Worthington, E. L., Jr. (1994a). Encouraging clients to forgive people who have hurt them: Review, critique, and research prospectus. Journal of Psychology and Theology, 22, 320. McCullough, M.E. & Worthington, E. L., Jr. (1994b). Models of interpersonal forgiveness and their applications to counseling: Review and critique. Counseling and Values, 39, 2-14. Mullet, E., Barros, J., Frongia, L., Usai, V., Neto, F., Shafighi, S. R. (1993). Religious involvement and the forgiving personality. Journal of Personality, 71, 1-19. Mullet, E., Houdbine, A., Laumonier, S., & Giard, M. (1998). "Forgivingness:" Factor structure in a sample of young, middleaged, and elderly adults. European Psychologist, 3, 289-297. Retrieved May 14, 2004 from PsycARTICLES database. Muoz Sastre, M. T., Vinsonneau, G., Chabrol, H., & Mullet, E. (2005). Forgivingness and the paranoid personality style. Personality and Individual Differences, 38, 765-772. Neto, F., Mullet, E. (2004). Personality, self-esteem, and selfconstrual as correlates of forgivingness. European Journal of Personality, 18, 15-30. Paleari, F. G., Regalia, C., & Fincham, F. D. (2005). Marital quality, forgiveness, empathy, and rumination: A longitudinal analysis. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 31, 368-378. Pop, J. L., Sutton, G.W., & Jones, E.G. (2005). Restoring Pastors Following a Moral Failure: The Effects of Self-Interest and Group

Influence. Manuscript submitted for publication. Ristovski, A., & Wertheim, E. H. (2005). Investigation of compensation source, trait empathy, satisfaction with outcome and forgiveness in the criminal context. Australian Psychologist, 40, 6369. Sandage, S.J., Worthington, E.L., Jr., Hight, T.L., & Berry, J.W. (2000). Seeking forgiveness: Theoretical context and an initial empirical study. Journal of Psychology and Theology, 28, 21-35. Seybold, K.S., Hill, P.C., Neumann, J. K., & Chi, D.S. (2001). Physiological and psychological correlates of forgiveness. Journal of Psychology and Christianity, 20, 250-259. Schmitt, M., Gollwitzer, M., Forster, N., & Montada, L. (2004). Effects of objective and subjective account components on forgiving. The Journal of Social Psychology and Personality, 144, 465-485. Smedes, L. B. (2001, December,1). Keys to forgiving: How do you know that you have truly forgiven someone? Christianity Today, 45, 73. Retrieved October,11, 2003 from EBSCOhost database. Snyder, C. R., & Heinze, L. S. (2005). Forgiveness as a mediator of the relationship between PTSD and hostility in survivors of childhood abuse. Cognition and Emotion, 19, 413-431. Sutton, G.W. & Thomas, E. K. (2004, October). Measures of restoration: What do people believe about restoring leaders to wholeness? Poster session presented at the meeting of the Christian Association for Psychological Studies, Midwest Regional Conference, Cleveland, OH. Sutton, G.W. & Thomas, E. K. (2005). Can derailed pastors be restored? Effects of offense and age on restoration. Pastoral Psychology, 53, 583-599. Sutton, G. W. & Thomas, E. (in press) Restoring Christian leaders: How conceptualizations of forgiveness and restoration can influence practice and research. American Journal of Pastoral Psychology, 8. Sutton, G.W, Washburn, D. M., Comtois, L.L., & Moeckel, A.R. (2005). Social work referrals: How do agency personnel problems affect client referrals and the restoration of trust? Manuscript submitted for publication.

Takaku, S., Weiner, B., & Ohbuchi, K.-I. (2001). A cross-cultural examination of the effects of apology and perspective taking on forgiveness. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 20, 144166. Thompson, L. Y., Snyder, C. R., Hoffman, L., Michael, S.T., Rasmussen, H. N., Billings, L. S., et al., (in press). Dispositional forgiveness of self, others, and situations. Journal of Personality. Touissant, L. L., Williams, D. R., Musick, M. A., & Everson, S. A. (2001). Forgiveness and health: Age differences in a U.S. probability sample. Journal of Adult Development, 8, 249-257. Wade, N.G., Worthington, E.L. Jr. (2003). Overcoming interpersonal offenses: Is forgiveness the only way to deal with unforgiveness? Journal of Counseling and Development, 81, 343 353. Waldron, V., & Kelley, D. K. (in press). Forgiving communication as a response to relational transgressions. Journal of Personal and Social Relationships. Wohl, M. J. A., & Branscombe, N. R. (2004). Importance of social categorization for forgiveness and collective guilt assignment for the Holocaust. In N. R. Branscombe & B. Dooje (Eds.) Collective guilt: International perspectives, (pp. 284-305). New York: Cambridge University Press. Wohl, M. J. A., & Branscombe, N. R. (2005). Forgiveness and collective guilt assignment to historical perpetrator groups depend on level of social category inclusiveness. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 88, 288-303. Wohl, M. J. A., Kuiken, D., & Noels, K. A. (in press). Three ways to forgive: A numerically aided phenomenological study. British Journal of Social Psychology. Wohl, M. J. A., & Reeder, G. D. (2004). When bad deeds are forgiven: Judgments of morality and forgiveness for intergroup aggression. In F. Columbus (Ed.), Psychology of Aggression, (pp. 59-74). New York: Nova Science Publishers, Inc. Worthington, E. L., Jr. (1998). An empathy-humility-commitment model of forgiveness applied within family dyads. Journal of Family Therapy, 20, 59-76.

Worthington, E. L., Jr. (2000). Is there a place for forgiveness in the justice system? Fordham Urban Law Journal, 27, 1721-1734. Worthington, E. L., Jr., Berry, J. W., & Parrott, L. III. (2001). Unforgiveness, forgiveness, religion, and health. In T. G. Plante & A.C. Sherman (Eds.), Faith and health: Psychological perspectives (pp. 107-138). New York: Guilford. Worthington, E. L., Jr. & Drinkard, D.T. (2000). Promoting reconciliation through psychoeducational and therapeutic interventions. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 26, 93-101. Worthington, E. L., Jr., & Scherer, M. (2004). Forgiveness is an emotion-focused coping strategy that can reduce health risks and promote health resilience: theory, review, and hypotheses. Psychology and Health, 19, 385 406.Worthington, E. L., Jr. & Wade, N. G. (1999). The psychology of unforgiveness and forgiveness and implications for clinical practice. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 18, 385-418. Zechmeister, J. S., Garcia, S., Romero, C., & Vas, S. N. (2004). Dont apologize unless you mean it: A laboratory investigation of forgiveness and retaliation. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 23, 532-564. The list was compiled using the usual professional databases which may be consulted for abstracts and links to the published articles (e.g., PsycINFO, EBSCOhost). In addition, many may be found using Google scholar (www.google.com) and the Kentucky University Forgiveness Project. I welcome corrections and additions suttong@evangel.edu