Handbook of forgiveness / Everett L. Worthington, Jr., editor.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 507-545) and indexes.

Part I: Nature, philosophy, religion, and forgiveness -- Primate conflict resolution and its relation to human forgiveness / Frans B.M. de Waal and Jennifer J. Pokorny -- Forgiveness, self-respect, and the value of resentment / Jeffrie G. Murphy -- Forgiveness in cultural context / Steve J. Sandage & Ian Williamson -- When the sacred is violated : desecration as a unique challenge to forgiveness / Annette Mahoney, Mark S. Rye & Kenneth I. Pargament -- Anger toward God : a new frontier in forgiveness research / Julie J. Exline & Alyce Martin -- Part II: Methods of studying forgivness -- Forgiveness as change / Michael E. McCullough & Lindsey M. Root -- Issues in the multimodal measurement of forgiveness / William T. Hoyt and Michael E. McCullough -- Part III: The psychology of forgiveness -- Emotional development and forgiveness in children : emerging evidence / Susanne Denham, Karen Neal, Beverly Wilson, Stephanie Pickering, & Chris Boyatzis -- Forgiving the self : conceptual issues and empirical findings / June P. Tangney, Angela Boone, Rhonda Dearing -- Personality and its effects on resentment, revenge, forgiveness, and self-forgiveness / Etienne Mullet, Félix Neto, and Sheila Rivière -- Part IV: Close relationships and forgiveness -- Forgiveness and relational repair / Caryl E. Rusbult, Peggy A. Hannon, Shevaun L. Stocker & Eli J. Finkel -- "'Til lack of forgiveness doth us part" : forgiveness and marriage / Frank D. Fincham, Julie H. Hall & Steven R.H. Beach -- Families and forgiveness / Cynthia L. Battle and Ivan W. Miller -- Part V: The body and forgiveness -- Genetic influences on forgiving / Ming Tsuang, Lindon Eaves, Tal Nir, Beth A. Jerskey & Michael J. Lyons -- Neuroimaging of forgivability / Tom F.D. Farrow and Peter W.R. Woodruff -- The physiology and pathophysiology of unhappiness / Robert Sapolsky -- Unforgiveness, forgiveness, and justice : scientific findings on feelings and physiology / Charlotte van Oyen Witvliet -- Forgiveness, unforgiveness, health, and disease / Alex H.S. Harris and Carl E. Thoresen -- Forgiveness and health in persons living with HIV/AIDS / Lydia Temoshok & Rebecca L. Wald -- Theoretical and empirical connections between forgiveness, mental health, and well-being / Loren Toussaint & Jon R. Webb -- Forgiveness in people experiencing trauma / Jennie G. Noll -- Part VI: Intervening to promote forgiveness -- Facilitating forgiveness in individual therapy as an approach to resolving interpersonal injuries / Wanda Malcolm, Serine Warwar & Leslie Greenberg -- A progress report on the process model of forgiveness / Suzanne Freedman, Robert D. Enright & Jeanette Knutson -- Forgiveness in couples : divorce, affairs, and couple therapy / Kristina Coop Gordon, Donald H. Baucom, and Douglas K. Snyder -- But do they really work? : a meta-analysis of group interventions to promote forgiveness / Nathaniel G. Wade, Everett L. Worthington, Jr. & Julia E. Meyer -- Part VII: Societal issues involving forgiveness -- Constructive rather than harmful forgiveness, reconciliation, and ways to promote them after genocide and mass killing / Ervin Staub -- Intergroup forgiveness and intergroup conflict : Northern Ireland, a case study / Ed Cairns, Tania Tam, Miles Hewstone & Ulrike Niens -- The social psychology of forgiveness and justice in civil and organizational settings / Peter C. Hill, Julie Juola Exline & Adam B. Cohen -- The paradox of forgiveness in restorative justice / Marilyn P. Armour and Mark S. Umbreit -- Part VIII: Present and future of forgiveness -- Forgiveness bibliography / Michael Scherer, Kathryn L. Cooke & Everett L. Worthington, Jr. -- More questions about forgiveness : research agenda for 2005-2015 / Everett L. Worthington, Jr.