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To Forgive Is Divine? Morality and the Status Value of Intergroup Revenge and Forgiveness

Stephen Benard, Long Doan, D. Adam Nicholson, Emily Meanwell, Eric L. Wright, Peter Lista
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences November 2022, 8 (6) 122-139; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2022.8.6.07
Stephen Benard
aAssociate professor of sociology at Indiana University
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bAssociate professor of sociology at the University of Maryland, United States
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D. Adam Nicholson
cPostdoctoral scholar at The Ohio State University, United States
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Emily Meanwell
dClinical associate professor of sociology at Indiana University, United States
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Eric L. Wright
eData analyst at Nexleaf Analytics, United States
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fDoctoral candidate in sociology at Indiana University, United States
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vol. 8 no. 6 122-139
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2022.8.6.07

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2377-8253
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  • Published online November 29, 2022.

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© 2022 Russell Sage Foundation. Benard, Stephen, Long Doan, D. Adam Nicholson, Emily Meanwell, Eric L. Wright, and Peter Lista. 2022. “To Forgive Is Divine? Morality and the Status Value of Intergroup Revenge and Forgiveness.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 8(6): 122–39. DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2022.8.6.07. We thank Sydney Alcaraz, Callie Cleckner, Benjamin Gallati, Melissa Garcia, Patrick Kaminski, Eunhye Lee, Jennifer Lee, Hannah Lloyd, Christian Negron Rolon, Alyssa Place, Kara Snawder, Jenny Yang, and Iris Zhao for their work coding the open-ended responses, and Benjamin Hartmann for writing the R code for the sensitivity analyses. We also thank the editors and conference participants for their helpful feedback, and the National Science Foundation (Award ID #1728889) and Indiana University for supporting this research. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation or other sponsors. Direct correspondence to: Stephen Benard, at sbenard@indiana.edu, Department of Sociology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 47405, United States. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

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  1. Stephen Benarda,
  2. Long Doanb,
  3. D. Adam Nicholsonc,
  4. Emily Meanwelld,
  5. Eric L. Wrighte and
  6. Peter Listaf
  1. aAssociate professor of sociology at Indiana University
  2. bAssociate professor of sociology at the University of Maryland, United States
  3. cPostdoctoral scholar at The Ohio State University, United States
  4. dClinical associate professor of sociology at Indiana University, United States
  5. eData analyst at Nexleaf Analytics, United States
  6. fDoctoral candidate in sociology at Indiana University, United States
  1. Correspondence author:
    Stephen Benard, (sbenard{at}indiana.edu)
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