It's the little things: Everyday gratitude as a booster shot for romantic relationships

By Sara B. Algoe, Shelly L. Gable, Natalya Maisel. 2010

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Making the good even better: A review and theoretical model of interpersonal capitalization (2018, background): “Research shows that receiving a partner's gratitude on 1 day predicts increases in feelings of relationship quality and connection on the next day (Algoe, Gable, & Maisel, 2010).”
Find, Remind, and Bind: The Functions of Gratitude in Everyday Relationships (2012, background): “The find-remind-and-bind theory therefore expands our understanding of gratitude and clarifies that, more than just a mechanism for repayment of strangers, gratitude signals any responsive conspecific and promotes interpersonal bonds with that person (e.g., Algoe et al., 2010).”
A daily diary study of relationships between feelings of gratitude and well-being (2017, methodology): “In terms of lagged relationships between gratitude and well-being, similar to the results of Algoe et al. (2010), we expected to find lags from gratitude on day i to well-being on day i + 1.”
The Construction of Emotion in Interactions, Relationships, and Cultures (2012, background): “In the second study (Algoe et al., 2010), both partners of 67 heterosexual couples kept a daily diary on their own and their partners’ thoughtful actions, their emotional reactions (e.g., gratitude) towards their partners’ actions, and their relationship satisfaction.”
Appreciation: a spiritual path to finding value and meaning in the workplace (2012, background): “Research has shown that appreciation forges and maintains social connections, promotes good quality sleep and encourages helping and interpersonal trust (e.g. Schneider 2001, Dunn and Schweitzer 2005, Bartlett and DeSteno 2006, Wood et al. 2009, Algoe et al. 2010).”
Gratitude and Subjective Wellbeing: A Proposal of Two Causal Frameworks (2017, background): “…state gratitude has been found to predict future changes in relationship satisfaction and relationship connection in romantic partners as well (Algoe et al. 2010), suggesting that the relationship is directional and that higher relationship satisfaction does not simply promote more gratitude…”