Charles Griswold argues that genuine forgiveness requires a change in the victim's affective stance toward the wrongdoer, not merely a behavioral change in how resentment is expressed.

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Affective stance(describing the victim's emotional change toward the wrongdoer): Your emotional attitude or feeling toward someone; the way you emotionally relate to them rather than just how you act around them.
Charles Griswold(as the philosopher being cited in this statement): A contemporary American philosopher who studies ethics, particularly focusing on forgiveness, resentment, and how we repair relationships after wrongdoing.
genuine forgiveness(as used in ethics and philosophy of action): Real, authentic forgiveness as opposed to something that might look like forgiveness but isn't truly the thing itself.
resentment(Proposed within the no-priority view discussion of wrongness): A specific form of anger conceptually restricted to cases that are founded on moral reasons, particularly wrongness.

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