Can forgiveness improve population health and well-being?

What is it about?

Forgiveness may have value for public health and well-being, but it is not a simple or universally appropriate solution. This commentary considers how we might understand forgiveness and reasonably measure it in large-scale studies, what population-level increases in forgiveness might mean, how forgiveness interventions may work differently across people, and possibilities for making forgiveness resources more widely available at scale while remaining sensitive to other issues (e.g., justice, accountability) that might need to be considered for a fuller societal and public health approach to addressing wrongdoing.

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Photo by Angelo Moleele on Unsplash