Gratitude for small and large favors: A behavioral test

By Jo-Ann Tsang. 2007

181 citations recorded by the source corpus.

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/a80f956a5674f0b23eaa043dab3716d86d993fbf

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Social Psychology

Citations in the corpus

An Adaptation for Altruism (2008, background): “Tsang (2007) also found that gratitude was a better mediator of the association between receiving a gift of large value and reciprocating a favor than was indebtedness.”
Find, Remind, and Bind: The Functions of Gratitude in Everyday Relationships (2012, background): “That is a point on which gratitude researchers agree, and several studies have identified situational features that increase the intensity of grateful feelings (Algoe & Stanton, 2012; Algoe et al., 2008; Converse & Fishbach, forthcoming; Tesser, Gatewood, & Driver, 1968; Tsang, 2006a; Tsang, 2007; W”
Pay It Forward: Gratitude in Social Networks (2011, methodology): “To test this hypothesis, we applied a social network analysis in a real-life situation to overcome the theoretical gaps of previous studies (Algoe and Haidt 2009; Bartlett and DeSteno 2006; Tsang 2007 ).”
Distinct Effects of Pride and Gratitude Appeals on Sustainable Luxury Brands (2020, unknown): “2017; Tsang 2007; Raggio and Folse 2011).”
It's the little things: Everyday gratitude as a booster shot for romantic relationships (2010, methodology): “Ample evidence suggests that gratitude comes from intentionally provided costly benefits — that is, people feel more gratitude when there is a real or perceived cost to the benefactor for his or her intentional actions toward the recipient, and they feel more gratitude when they like or value the ac”
Being grateful is beyond good manners: Gratitude and motivation to contribute to society among early adolescents (2010, background): “Feeling grateful, in fact, causes people to respond prosocially to benefactors (Bartlett and DeSteno 2006; Tsang 2006, 2007) and unrelated others (Bartlett and DeSteno 2006; Nowak and Roch 2007).”
More gratitude, less materialism: The mediating role of life satisfaction (2009, background): “For example, Tsang ( 2007 ) found that grateful people are more likely to return a favor and McCullough and colleagues ( 2002 ) showed that grateful people are more supportive of and generous toward the people in their lives.”
Why are materialists less happy? The role of gratitude and need satisfaction in the relationship between materialism and life satisfaction. (2014, background): “Gratitude is a positive emotion that is experienced when people perceive that they have a received a valued benefit (Emmons & Crumpler, 2000; McCullough, Kilpatrick, Emmons, & Larson, 2001; Tsang, 2007).”