Though gratitude research in organizational behavior (OB) is nascent, this emotion has a rich history the social sciences. Research shown to promote prosocial behaviors, encourage personal well-being, and foster interpersonal relationships. However, been siloed among these three outcomes of (moral, wellness, relational). Similarly, past reviews have focused on only one group outcomes, its forms...

This paper presents a tool for extracting and normalizing temporal expressions in SMS messages in order to automatically fill in an electronic calendar. The extraction process is based on a library of finite-state transducers that identify temporal structures and annotate the components needed for the time normalization task. An initial evaluation puts recall at 0.659 and precision at 0.795.

iii Acknowledgement I wish to express my gratitude to a number of people who became involved with this thesis, one way or another. I am deeply indebted to my supervisor, Dr. Nauman Chaudhry whose help, stimulating discussions; suggestions and encouragement helped me in all the time of research and for writing of this thesis. In addition, I would like to thank Dr. Mahdi Abdelguerfi and Dr. Golde...

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...

Recent theory posits that the emotion of gratitude uniquely functions to build a high-quality relationship between a grateful person and the target of his or her gratitude, that is, the person who performed a kind action (Algoe et al., 2008). Therefore, gratitude is a prime candidate for testing the dyadic question of whether one person's grateful emotion has consequences for the other half of ...

OBJECTIVE Although gratitude has been identified as a key clinically relevant trait for improving well-being, it is understudied within medical populations. The current study addressed this gap and extended previous and limited cross-sectional research by examining the longitudinal associations of gratitude to depression in 2 chronic illness samples, arthritis and inflammatory bowel disease (IB...

Gratitude science often conflates the processes of actors recalling and sharing gratitude, as well neglecting to study targets (benefactors receiving gratitude) witnesses (those witnessing gratitude). We explored roles (actors, targets, witnesses) (recalling, sharing, receiving, witnessing) involved in gratitude exchanges. In Study 1, undergraduate students (actors; N = 369) wrote letters about...