Gratitude is a moral emotion that demonstrates our appreciation of altruism. In psychology, feeling grateful linked to an increase in well-being, yet there lack HCI research on if gratitude can be cultivated through and with conversational agents. We quantitatively studied whether chatbot people’s (N = 133), as well its influence positive negative emotions. Compared the control condition, share...

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 ...

PURPOSE Recent studies have shown that perceived social support is associated with gratitude and sense of coherence, but evidence for this concept remains scarce. In the present study, we investigated relationships between social support, gratitude, and sense of coherence, focusing on the construct of and source of social support among young women. METHODS The study was conducted in 2014 in J...

Article history: Initial receipt 8 March 2017 Final revision received 23 August 2017 Herewe examine the roles of interpersonal valuation and gratitude in the formation of cooperative relationships. Building on prior work, we draw on the concept of a welfare tradeoff ratio (WTR), an internally computed index of the extent to which one person values another person's welfare relative to his or her...

Being grateful has been associated with many positive outcomes, including greater happiness, positive affect, optimism, and self-esteem. There is limited research, however, on the associations between gratitude and different domains of life satisfaction across cultures. The current study examined the associations between gratitude and three domains of life satisfaction, including satisfaction i...

This paper explores the potential role of gratitude on the reduction of loneliness feelings, even controlling for several variables related to social desirability, well-being (subjective happiness and life satisfaction) and socio-demographic characteristics. Through a web-based survey a convenience sample of 197 participants completed an online questionnaire including these measures. Correlatio...