By Robert A. Emmons,Michael E. McCullough

ISBN-10: 0195150104

ISBN-13: 9780195150100

Gratitude, like different optimistic feelings, has encouraged many theological and philosophical writings, however it has encouraged little or no lively, empirical study. with a purpose to therapy this oversight, this quantity brings jointly fashionable scientists from a number of disciplines to envision what has turn into referred to as the most-neglected emotion. the quantity starts off with the old, philosophical, and theoretical foundations of gratitude, then offers the present study views from social, character, and developmental psychology, in addition to from primatology, anthropology, and biology. the amount additionally encompasses a finished, annotated bibliography of study on gratitude. This paintings contributes greatly to the growing to be optimistic psychology initiative and to the clinical research of confident human feelings. will probably be a useful source for researchers and scholars in social, character, and developmental, medical, and wellbeing and fitness psychology, in addition to to sociologists and cultural anthropologists.

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