This paper reviews research on apologies, considering research goals and results in assessing the ‘maturity’ of apology research. It is argued that such research needs to progress beyond a descriptive goal to an explanatory goal in terms of the underlying cultural assumptions that inform the perception of contextual factors which in turn inform apology behavior.
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