Though interest in the emotion of gratitude has historically focused on its role in social
exchange, new evidence suggests a different and more important role for gratitude in social …

What is the impact of dispositional gratitude on well-being? By synthesizing the literature, we
evaluate the association between dispositional gratitude and mental well-being as a …

Objective: The goal of this article is to provide insight into how recent findings from affective
science may be translated into the health arena. Methods: We first review definitional issues …

Recent theory posits that the emotion of gratitude uniquely functions to build a high-quality
relationship between a grateful person and the target of his or her gratitude, that is, the …

Despite wide-ranging negative consequences of interpersonal mistreatment, research offers
few practical solutions to reduce such behavior in organizations. Given that interpersonal …

Over a century ago, William James outlined the first psychological constructionist model of
emotion, arguing that emotions are phenomena constructed of more basic psychological …

Gratitude has been described as an adaptive evolutionary mechanism that is relevant to
healthy psychological and interpersonal outcomes. Questions remain as to whether the …

We propose a novel theoretical and empirical approach to studying group-level social
functions of emotions and use it to make new predictions about social consequences of …

Recent correlational evidence implicates gratitude in personal and relational growth, for
both members of ongoing relationships. From these observations, it would be tempting to …

Gratitude, the experience of appreciating the positive aspects in life, has been associated
with increased subjective wellbeing (SWB). This paper proposes two causal frameworks (ie …