Gratitude and the science of positive psychology.

By Robert A Emmons, C. Shelton. 2002

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Are authentic leaders associated with more virtuous, committed and potent teams? ☆ ☆☆ (2013, background): “Virtuous teams may lead employees to feel gratitude for working in such teams (Emmons & Shelton, 2001; Fredrickson, 1998), to feel psychologically safer, and to perceive team support, thus reciprocating with greater team affective commitment (Bishop et al., 2005; Coyle-Shapiro, 2002; Dayan, 2010;…”
Enhancing social relationships through positive psychology activities: a randomised controlled trial (2016, background): “…has shown to be more psychologically beneficial than receiving help from others (Brown, Nesse, Vinokur, & Smith, 2003) and higher levels of gratitude are associated with improved relationships (Algoe, Haidt, & Gable, 2008; Emmons & Shelton, 2002; McCullough, Kilpatrick, Emmons, & Larson, 2001).”
Can prayer increase gratitude (2009, unknown): “…Clark, Durtschi, Fincham, & Graham, in press), lower materialism (Lambert, Fincham, Stillman, & Dean, 2009), lower depression (Wood, Maltby, Gillett, Linley, & Joseph, 2008), and strengthened social bonds and friendships (Emmons & Shelton, 2002; McCullough et al., 2001; McCullough & Tsang, 2004).”
Thriving With Social Purpose: An Integrative Approach to the Development of Optimal Human Functioning (2007, background): “Recent work on gratitude, which has become such a prominent part of the positive psychology literature (Emmons & Shelton, 2002; Seligman et al., 2005), illustrates how social purpose can also be seen from the perspective of those who benefit from the integrative social goals of others with whom…”
More gratitude, less materialism: The mediating role of life satisfaction (2009, background): “Other researchers have suggested that kind acts inspired by gratitude build and strengthen social bonds and friendships (Emmons & Shelton, 2002; McCullough & Tsang, 2004; McCullough et al., 2001).”
Going beyond self‐esteem to predict life satisfaction: The Chinese case (2006, background): “…(Snyder & Lopez, 2002), responsibility has been considered to be one of the civic virtues, a socialized consequence of institutions that drive individuals to better citizenship, thereby enhancing individuals’ positive subjective experience of well-being and satisfaction (Emmons & Shelton, 2002).”
Positive psychology at work: A conceptual review, state-of-practice assessment, and a look ahead (2013, background): “…positive spiral described by Fredrickson (2001), unfortunately positive organizational research has heretofore largely neglected the construct of gratitude, potentially due to its possible mistaken negative association with concepts of indebtedness or expected reciprocity (Emmons & Shelton, 2002).”
Retributive justice, restorative justice, and forgiveness: An experimental psychophysiology analysis (2008, background): “Such a finding would be consistent with prior work suggesting that apologies and concessions facilitate forgiveness (see Exline et al., 2003, for an overview). Furthermore, in the justice scripts of the current study, the victim imagined waiting weeks and months for the justice outcome, and then—in ”
BRIEF REPORT Gratitude and prosocial behaviour: An experimental test of gratitude (2006, background): “Yet there has been a paucity of psychological work on gratitude (Emmons & Shelton, 2002; McCullough et al., 2001).”
Links Between Parents’ and Children’s Levels of Gratitude, Life Satisfaction, and Hope (2013, background): “In sum, it is estimated that the ability to experience gratitude matures and stabilizes by the age of ten (Emmons & Shelton, 2002; Graham, 1988).”