ReviewFrontiers in psychology2017
A Potential Role for mu-Opioids in Mediating the Positive Effects of Gratitude.
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- The impact of gratitude interventions on patients with cardiovascular disease: a systematic review.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Pooled it
- Resilience Building Practices for Women Physicians.Journal of women's health (2002) · 2024Article
- Lower perceived stress among physically active elite private university students with higher levels of gratitude.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2024Article
- Kin relationality and ecological belonging: a cultural psychology of Indigenous transcendence.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Review
- Effectiveness of Mindfulness and Positive Strengthening mHealth Interventions for the Promotion of Subjective Emotional Wellbeing and Management of Self-Efficacy for Chronic Cardiac Diseases.Journal of personalized medicine · 2022Article
- Social touch and human development.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2019Review
- The Cultivation of Pure Altruism via Gratitude: A Functional MRI Study of Change with Gratitude Practice.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2017Article
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Abstract
Gratitude is a complex emotional feeling associated with universally desirable positive effects in personal, social, and physiological domains. Why or how gratitude achieves these functional outcomes is not clear. Toward the goal of identifying its' underlying physiological processes, we recently investigated the neural correlates of gratitude. In our study, participants were exposed to gratitude-inducing stimuli, and rated each according to how much gratitude it provoked. As expected, self-reported gratitude intensity correlated with brain activity in distinct regions of the medial pre-frontal cortex associated with social reward and moral cognition. Here we draw from our data and existing literature to offer a theoretical foundation for the physiological correlates of gratitude. We propose that mu-opioid signaling (1) accompanies the mental experience of gratitude, and (2) may account for the positive effects of gratitude on social relationships, subjective wellbeing, and physiological health.
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