Unravel a Knot: Exploring Double Edged Effects of Gratitude Mindset on Social Behaviors.

Wenya Yang, Jianwei Zhang, Guangxia Guo, Xinchen Niu, Tingting Zhang, Meiting Xiong

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Article in Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Wenya YangSchool of Education, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 102488, China.

Jianwei ZhangSchool of Education, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 102488, China.ORCID 0000-0001-7726-5638

Guangxia GuoSchool of Education, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 102488, China.

Xinchen NiuSchool of Education, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 102488, China.ORCID 0009-0002-5789-3965

Tingting ZhangSchool of Education, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 102488, China.

Meiting XiongSchool of Education, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 102488, China.

Funding

Beijing High-Level Talent Cultivation Grant Program

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

While abundant evidence supports gratitude's positive functions, recent findings have also revealed its potential to trigger aggressive behaviors. However, existing theories struggle to fully explain this apparent paradox. To address this gap, we introduce the construct of the gratitude mindset and explore its paradoxical impact on social behaviors. Study 1 (

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aggressive behavioraltruistic behaviorgratitude mindsetmoral disengagementmoral imagination

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PMID42792428

DOI10.3390/bs16091628

PMCPMC13603818

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