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Publication details [#60678]
Ting-Toomey, Stella, John Oetzel, Qin Zhang and Jibiao Zhang. 2015. The Emotional Side of Forgiveness: A Cross-Cultural Investigation of the Role of Anger and Compassion and Face Threat in Interpersonal Forgiveness and Reconciliation. Journal of International and Intercultural Communication 8 (4) : 311–329. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
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Place, Publisher
Routledge
Annotation
This paper explores the dynamic interactions between the emotions of anger and pity, face threat, pardon, and propitiation in relational offenses in U.S. and Chinese cultures. Chinese participants mention more relationship-oriented pardon, but no contrast appears in self-oriented pardon.