Sometimes my day is brightened by someone’s gratitude. Even if I barely remember the consultation referred to in a card, clearly it was appreciated patient. If I’m thanked person often respond, quite truthfully, that just doing job. Conversely, most GPs have experiences of patients for whom they’ve gone extra mile—with hours spent on long consultations, referrals, and advocacy—and received not ...

Forgiveness and gratitude represent positive psychological responses to interpersonal harms and benefits that individuals have experienced. In the present article we first provide a brief review of the research that has shown forgiveness and gratitude to be related to various measures of physical and psychological well-being. We then review the empirical findings regarding the cognitive and aff...

Gratitude practice can be a catalyzing and relational healing force, often untapped in clinical practice. In this article, we provide an overview of current thinking about gratitude's defining and beneficial properties, followed by a brief review of the research on mental health outcomes that result from gratitude practice. Following an analysis of our case study of the use of gratitude as a ps...

One of the most important features of health care is to be able to follow a patient’s progress over time and identify events in a temporal order. We describe initial steps in creating resources for automatic temporal reasoning of Swedish medical text. As a first step, we focus on the identification of temporal expressions by exploiting existing resources and systems available for English. We ad...

The emotion of gratitude is thought to have social effects, but empirical studies of such effects have focused largely on the repaying of kind gestures. The current research focused on the relational antecedents of gratitude and its implications for relationship formation. The authors examined the role of naturally occurring gratitude in college sororities during a week of gift-giving from olde...

Two studies were conducted to explore gratitude in daily mood and the relationships among various affective manifestations of gratitude. In Study 1, spiritual transcendence and a variety of positive affective traits were related to higher mean levels of gratitude across 21 days. Study 2 replicated these findings and revealed that on days when people had more grateful moods than was typical for ...