The Psychology of Gratitude (Series in Affective Science) by Robert A. Emmons,Michael E. McCullough

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By Robert A. Emmons,Michael E. McCullough

Gratitude, like different confident feelings, has encouraged many theological and philosophical writings, however it has encouraged little or no full of life, empirical examine. as a way to treatment this oversight, this quantity brings jointly famous scientists from a variety of disciplines to envision what has develop into referred to as the most-neglected emotion. the amount starts with the historic, philosophical, and theoretical foundations of gratitude, then offers the present learn views from social, character, and developmental psychology, in addition to from primatology, anthropology, and biology. the amount additionally encompasses a complete, annotated bibliography of analysis on gratitude. This paintings contributes greatly to the transforming into optimistic psychology initiative and to the clinical research of optimistic human feelings. it will likely be a useful source for researchers and scholars in social, character, and developmental, medical, and health and wellbeing psychology, in addition to to sociologists and cultural anthropologists.

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