interpersonal transgression

When a person hurts another, and later is forgiven, both people feel closer to each other.

Flyhighsky--

This is not a very good sentence.



After deep thought I decided that "interpersonal transgression" meant "an act of rudeness" or "a lack of consideration" between two people. Essentially it is an occasion where one person hurts another.

So the sentence "means": When one person hurts another and this person is forgiven there is a renewed closeness between these two people after one person hurts another.

"Interpersonal transgression" is not needed.

Re: interpersonal transgression


This entire sentence sounds like something dreamed up by an academic attempting to sound erudite. Instead, it comes across as wordy and foolish.

It could have come from a psychology textbook or paper.

In fact a quick Google for the text "forgiveness is associated with restored relational closeness" shows that it is found in "Victim and Perpetrator Accounts of Interpersonal Transgressions: Self-Serving or..."
- Kearns and Fincham Pers Soc Psychol Bull.2005; 31: 321-333. It is quoted in plenty of US social psychology course materials.

contrex- It figures. Leave it to the academics to use convoluted wording to explain simple concepts!

When one person hurts another,forgiveness is associated with restored relational closeness following an interpersonal transgression.

Better?

Following an interpersonal transgression, such as when one person hurts the feelings of another, forgiveness can restore relational closeness.

How about this?


When one person hurts another, and the injured person forgives, a positive interpersonal relationship is restored.

Sorry phoenix, you changed the thought

Your version says
relationships \ can be restored


The original says
forgiveness\ can restore\ relations