Harber and Williams reviewed two experiments that test the effects of disclosure on feelings of closeness between participants and an individual who had offended the participant in the past.  In the first study, researchers predicted

       that:

          a) feelings of closeness would be stronger among participants in the acquaintance/disclose conditions compared to the offender/disclose the condition.

          b) feelings of closeness would be stronger in the offender/suppress compared to all other experimental groups.

          c) feelings of closeness would be stronger in the acquaintance/suppress condition compared to all other experimental groups.

          d) feelings of closeness would be selectively stronger among participants in the offender/disclose condition relative participants in offender/suppress, acquaintance/disclose, or acquaintance/suppress conditions.