| Title: |
The Elements of Gratitude |
| Authors: |
N. Loria, Riley; Lieberman, Debra; J. Pedersen, Eric |
| Source: |
The Oxford Handbook of Evolution and the Emotions ; page 263-281 ; ISBN 9780197544754 9780197544785 |
| Publisher Information: |
Oxford University Press |
| Publication Year: |
2024 |
| Description: |
Gratitude is a key emotion motivating the initiation and maintenance of cooperative relationships. However, it has received relatively little attention from evolutionarily minded social scientists. We have learned much about gratitude in the past two decades that sheds light on gratitude’s purported evolved functions, but several questions remain: Does gratitude rely on benefit delivery? Does it require that a cost be incurred? Does gratitude correspond to a change in another’s value of the self, the self’s value of another, or both? And how do expressions of gratitude influence perceptions of the expressor? This chapter begins with an overview of the science of gratitude by reviewing research from positive and social psychology, highlighting the cross-cultural similarities and differences in the experience and expression of gratitude. The authors then focus on evolutionary perspectives on gratitude, discuss experimental results that adjudicate between them, and suggest profitable lines of future research. |
| Document Type: |
book part |
| Language: |
English |
| ISBN: |
978-0-19-754475-4; 978-0-19-754478-5; 0-19-754475-4; 0-19-754478-9 |
| DOI: |
10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197544754.013.17 |
| Availability: |
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197544754.013.17; https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/56886/chapter/455227644 |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.1BBC14FC |
| Database: |
BASE |