Of course, to the most skeptical of us, Kaplan's experience (while absolutely valid) seems pretty par for the course with the gratitude crowd. Big, earth shattering revelation plus promise to change ...

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With Thanksgiving approaching, we’ll all soon be taking time to acknowledge what we’re grateful for. It’s a nice gesture, of course, but why do we do it? What good is gratitude? For more than a decade ...

A recent study conducted in Polish schools suggests that attempting to teach gratitude to adolescents may have complex and sometimes unintended consequences regarding online behavior. While a ...

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The first Mother’s Day after my own mother died was a tough one for me. I told my kids that I’d like us all to take a hike together, knowing that being in nature would rejuvenate me and soothe my ...

One New Year’s Eve ten years ago, Janice Kaplan, journalist and author of The Gratitude Diaries: How a Year Looking on the Bright Side Can Transform Your Life, realized that she just didn’t seem to ...

Instead of asking does gratitude training make people experience positive emotions more intensely or frequently, ask under what situations is gratitude training helpful? We found an important ...