Difficulty Forgiving God and its Role in Negative Emotion

interests center on the interface between social and clinical psychology, and she has a special interest in the topic of forgiveness. ann marie yali is currently a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the Division of Behavioral Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute. Her research interests are in the role of religion, spirituality, and other biopsychosocial factors in the progression and recurrence of cancer, and in psychological adjustment to cancer. marci lobel is Associate Professor of Social/Health Psychology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She conducts research on stress, coping, and their impact on physical health, particularly in pregnant and childbearing women. acknowledgement. Marci Lobel received support from NIH Grant 5R29NR03443 during work on this project. We are grateful to four anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments on an earlier version of this article. competing interests: None declared. address. Correspondence should be directed to: julie juola exline, Department of Psychology