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An Equity Theory Analysis of the Impact of Forgiveness and Retribution on Transgressor Compliance

Brad R. C. Kelln

The University of Calgary

John H. Ellard

The University of Calgary, ellard{at}acs.ucalgary.ca

Forgiveness, when thought of as an unsolicited gift, may increase the perceived debt of the transgressor to the victim whereas retribution should reduce it. Male undergraduates participated in a study designed to test this equity interpretation of forgiveness and retribution. Participants were induced to break a piece of electronic equipment during an ostensible memory study; the reaction of the experimenter served as the experimental manipulation. Participants experienced one of forgiveness, retribution, both retribution and forgiveness, or neither, and were then asked to comply with a request from the experimenter as an indirect measure of perceived inequity. Consistent with an equity analysis, a planned contrast analysis indicated that forgiveness alone yielded the most compliance and retribution yielded the least compliance.

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 25, No. 7, 864-872 (1999)
DOI: 10.1177/0146167299025007008
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