Saying sorry, but not sorry

Will Saying "I'm Sorry" Prevent a Malpractice Lawsuit?

When Saying Sorry May Not Help: The Impact of Apologies on Social Rejections

If you have to socially reject someone, will it help to apologize? Social rejection is a painful emotional experience for targets, yet research has been silent on recommendations for rejectors. Across three sets of studies, apologies increased hurt feelings and the need to express forgiveness but did not increase feelings of forgiveness. The investigation of hurt feelings arising from a social ...

Better Safe than Sorry

common to all species (although the evidence for this appears weak; Flather et al. 2011), then the SAFE index is merely a measure of N. The need for the logarithmic transformation in the SAFE index is unsupported. Clements et al. claim that the SAFE index improves communication of “distance” from extinction. However, the general public, donors, and policy makers will understand the implications...

’Sorry’ is the hardest word

We are interested in the ways that language is used to achieve a variety of goals, where the same utterance may have vastly different consequences in different situations. This is closely related to the topic of creativity in language. The fact that the same utterance can be used to achieve a variety of goals opens up the possibility of using it to achieve new goals. The current paper concentra...

The effects of attributions of intent and apology on forgiveness: When saying sorry may not help the story ¬リニ

Despite the oft-cited positive effects of an apology on forgiveness, forgiveness does not always follow. In three studies we tested the ironic notion that, following an interpersonal transgression, an apology following an attribution of intent might further hinder, rather than benefit, the forgiveness process. The findings of three studies were systematically replicated and supported our primar...