In this issue, Worthington, Witvliet, Lerner, and Scherer discuss how forgiveness is taking its
place as an important issue in healthcare. Many readers of EXPLORE may not realize that …

Exploring possible relationships among forgiveness, disease, and physical health is truly at
the frontiers of forgiveness research. To date, no controlled studies have demonstrated that …

In the growing literature on the psychology of forgiveness, definitions play a crucial role.
Depending on how one defines forgiveness, the information gathered, conclusions drawn …

The extant data linking forgiveness to health and well-being point to the role of emotional
forgiveness, particularly when it becomes a pattern in dispositional forgivingness. Both are …

The world being what it is, there is no shortage of circumstances where the worst of human
behaviors provides the opportunity for one of the best, namely, forgiveness. Philosophers …

There is a need in both public and professional sectors for a deeper, and more complete
understanding of forgiveness, as we are-in the author's own words-" on the threshold of an …

Five years ago, we observed that no evidence existed from controlled studies link-ing
forgiveness to physiology, health, or disease (Thoresen, Harris, & Luskin, 2000). Since then …

Bringing together a distinguished array of researchers and scholars, this volume reviews the
breadth of current knowledge on the psychology of forgiveness. In addition to presenting …

We summarize 55 studies examining forgiveness and physical health published between
2000 and 2018. Studies must have used measures both of forgiveness and physical health …

Purpose: Forgiveness is associated with a variety of health-related outcomes; however
much of this work has been in the context of forgiveness of others, direct associations and …