Benefit valuation predicts gratitude

DE Forster, EJ Pedersen, A Smith… - Evolution and Human …, 2017 - Elsevier
… of welfare valuation are thought to be positively related to expectations of benefit delivery,
we predicted that gratitude for benefits should be higher when those benefits are provided by …

Evaluating benefits, costs, and social value as predictors of gratitude

DE Forster, EJ Pedersen… - Psychological …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
… on how acts of benefit delivery and perceptions of social value inform gratitude, an emotion
… Though we did not find a robust effect (p = .093) of net benefits directly predicting gratitude, …

Cooperation: The roles of interpersonal value and gratitude

A Smith, EJ Pedersen, DE Forster… - Evolution and Human …, 2017 - Elsevier
… We test several predictions regarding the effects of benefit … We then evaluate a novel prediction
regarding how gratitude … roles gratitude and WTR play in motivations to deliver benefits. …

Decomposing gratitude: Representation and integration of cognitive antecedents of gratitude in the brain

H Yu, X Gao, Y Zhou, X Zhou - Journal of Neuroscience, 2018 - Soc Neuroscience
… through which they are integrated and give rise to gratitude. We predicted that self-benefit
and benefactor-cost are encoded in regions associated with valuation (eg, ventral striatum [VS]…

Some determinants of gratitude.

A Tesser, R Gatewood, M Driver - Journal of personality and social …, 1968 - psycnet.apa.org
… It was predicted that feelings of gratitude are a function of the … in providing the benefit,
and the value of the benefit. 126 male … Each of the three predicted factors was found to be …

Feeling the intangible: Antecedents of gratitude toward intangible benefactors

JA Tsang, SA Schnitker, RA Emmons… - The Journal of Positive …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
… wider gratitude literature, we present systematic predictions … , gratitude typically involves
some type of benefit bestowed to … centers on a contemplation of the value of benefits broadly in …

Does gratitude enhance prosociality?: A meta-analytic review.

LK Ma, RJ Tunney, E Ferguson - Psychological bulletin, 2017 - psycnet.apa.org
… We detail the predictions from the main theoretical … coded benefit-triggered gratitude as
any emotional felt gratitude in … that generalized gratitude as an appreciation of valued people, …

[HTML][HTML] Neural correlates of gratitude

GR Fox, J Kaplan, H Damasio, A Damasio - Frontiers in psychology, 2015 - frontiersin.org
… is valued by religions and moral philosophies. It has been established that gratitude leads to
benefits … Our predictions are built around findings from previous psychological research on …

The expectation-updating mechanism in gratitude: A predictive coding perspective.

K Ding, H Lin, G Liu, F Kong, J Liu, X Zhou - Emotion, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
… increased gratitude in the positive prediction errors condition … of the benefit is not equivalent
to perceived value. For … To avoid the limitation of manipulating the magnitude of the benefit

The effects of gratitude expression on neural activity

P Kini, J Wong, S McInnis, N Gabana, JW Brown - NeuroImage, 2016 - Elsevier
… have shown the benefits of gratitude interventions on well … First, it renders gratitude
quantifiable in terms of monetary value, … the neural activity related to predicting the effects of one’s …