Reaction Paper: Forgiveness and Empathy
The ability to be empathetic toward others and forgive is without a doubt essential to relationships between people. Loren Toussaint and Jon R. Webb's study "Gender Differences in the Relationship Between Empathy and Forgiveness" gives some insight into how gender may influence the frequency in the use of empathy and forgiveness. From the data collected from the study their also seemed to be a difference in the way empathy is linked to forgiveness in men and women. It is foolish to believe that the differences in men and women's actions will one day be completely understood, but I think that this type of research may help people avoid misunderstanding of the opposite sex's actions by explaining that there is a difference based on gender.
The article addressed four different hypotheses. It was first hypothesized that empathy is positively linked with forgiveness. I wasn't surprised to find that the results agreed with the theory. In the......
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