Evidence for a relationship between trait gratitude and prosocial behaviour
Cognition and EmotionPublished in: Cognition and Emotion, Volume 32, Issue 2, 397-403 Abstract “Prosocial behaviour towards unrelated others is communally beneficial but can be individually costly. The emotion of gratitude mitigates this cost by encouraging direct as well as “upstream” reciprocity, thereby facilitating cooperation. A widely used method for measuring trait gratitude is the Gratitude Questionnaire (GQ6) [McCullough, […]
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