
The power of forgiving those who’ve hurt you, with Robert Enright, PhD
Speaking of Psychology
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The Role of Forgiveness in Social and Geopolitical Issues
I want to see forgiveness as part of dialogue and as part of solutions alongside justice. I have not found gender differences in how people successfully go through our psychotherapeutic process when they've been traumatized. Men and women are definitely motivated to forgive, both can forgive with equal accuracy. We're interested in children and what they do when another child pushes the one down and skins the person's knee or steals your orange at the lunch counter.
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