Social Aggression Sequences Among Women: An Examination of Socially Aggressive Acts, Responses, and Counter-responses in Relation to Interpersonal Forgiveness

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Abstract

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the complex series of events that constitute young women’s social aggression sequences. Grounded in theorizing about face (Goffman, 1967), the current investigation explored the nature of targets’ responses to socially aggressive acts, perpetrators’ counter-responses, as well as the impact that these communicative moves, both individually and collectively, had on forgiveness (i.e., revenge, avoidance, benevolence).

Authors

• Erin Willer, University of Denver

• Jody Koenig Kellas, University of Nebraska, Lincoln