Dacher Keltner is a psychology professor at the University of California , Berkeley; co-director of the Greater Good Science Center; and director of the Berkeley Social Interaction Laboratory. His research focuses on “prosocial” emotions, such as love, sympathy and gratitude.

Frans B.M. deWaal is the C.H. Candler Professor of Primate Behavior at Emory University, and he directs the Living Links Center at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center in Atlanta. His renowned research with primates has looked at the evolution of human emotions and morals, and he has studied whether apes can feel sympathy. He has studied how nonhuman primates reconcile […]

Susanne Denham is a psychology professor at George Mason University near Washington, D.C., who has studied how the ability to forgive develops in the first decade of life.

Thomas Bradbury is a psychology professor at the University of California at Los Angeles who studies causes of satisfaction in marriage and educational programs for couples, including forgiveness.

Eileen Borris is a licensed clinical psychologist who promotes forgiveness in the healing of emotional wounds on personal and political levels. She is the author of Finding Forgiveness: A 7-Step Program for Letting Go of Anger and Bitterness and Forgiveness: The Ultimate Freedom. She is also the director of training and program development for the Institute for Multi-Track Diplomacy […]

Radhi H. Al-Mabuk is associate professor of educational psychology at the University of Northern Iowa whose research focuses on the psychology of revenge – its causes, consequences and ways to deal with it. He has written a book on that topic as well as several articles on forgiveness.

The Rev. Raymond G. Helmick is an adjunct faculty member in the theology department of Boston College and co-editor of Forgiveness and Reconciliation: Religion, Public Policy and Conflict Transformation. He specializes in studying and mediating international conflicts, including those in the Middle East and Northern Ireland.

Brian Childs is director of clinical ethics and spiritual care for Shore Health System in the University of Maryland Medical System. He has researched how forgiveness training impacts the mental and physical health of AIDS patients. His dissertation at Princeton Theological Seminary explored forgiveness among preschool children.

Sue Savage-Rumbaugh is executive director and head scientist at Great Ape Trust of Iowa who has studied how youngsters learn forgiveness from caregivers.