The journal article, Third-Party Forgiveness: (Not) Forgiving Your Close Other’s Betrayer, examines the forgiveness process of third parties in a personal relationship context. While examining the question of why a third party might be less forgiving than the victims themselves? The researchers generated the primary hypothesis of “that close friends of victims (third parties) are less forgiving than the victims themselves (first parties). In order to test the stated hypothesis the researchers designed two separate experiments. Experiment 1, an imagery scenario was created which a romantic partner or the romantic’s partner created the identical relationship offense. Experiment 2, both the first and third parties described an actual offense