Abstract Engaging with Logan’s third chapter, on the American Seamen’s Friends Society, this piece reflects what it means to cringe in context of a benevolent or charitable relationship. People when they are made painfully aware gap between their self-conception (and/or ideal self) and way others perceive them. Logan shows us, her study ASFS , cringeworthy nature antebellum societies: learned a...

For online marketplaces to succeed and prevent a market of ‘lemons’, their feedback technologies must be able to differentiate among sellers and generate price premiums for trustworthy ones (as returns to their superior feedback). However, the literature has solely focused on positive and negative feedback ratings, alas ignoring the role of feedback text comments. These text comments are propos...

Two studies examined whether forgiveness in married couples is associated with better conflict resolution. Study 1 examined couples in their 3rd year of marriage and identified 2 forgiveness dimensions (retaliation and benevolence). Husbands' retaliatory motivation was a significant predictor of poorer wife-reported conflict resolution, whereas wives' benevolence motivation predicted husbands' ...

In this paper we will discuss tradeoffs between trust and autonomy. We show that benevolence play a central role in connecting these two social notions. We will show empirical results that illustrate the affinity between trust and autonomy.

The investigators proposed that transgression-related interpersonal motivations result from 3 psychological parameters: forbearance (abstinence from avoidance and revenge motivations, and maintenance of benevolence), trend forgiveness (reductions in avoidance and revenge, and increases in benevolence), and temporary forgiveness (transient reductions in avoidance and revenge, and transient incre...