We are usually grateful for good things that happened to us—but with a little imagination, we can also be grateful for bad things we avoided.
How grateful are you? Take our gratitude quiz and try these gratitude practices! We told participants who were assigned to write gratitude letters that they weren’t required to send their …
We define the grateful disposition as a generalized tendency to recognize and respond with grateful emotion to the roles of other people’s be-nevolence in the positive experiences and outcomes that …
Training the grateful brain To start to find out, I conducted an experiment that was quite similar to the one in my colleagues’ study. The key difference? I asked participants about their …
Americans are very grateful and they think gratitude is important—they’re just not very good at expressing it. That’s why Templeton’s new survey is so significant. The polling firm Penn …
A new study shows that expressing gratitude affects not only the grateful person, but anyone who witnesses it.