Um, thank you, Meagan: The idea of gratitude as a mood. A definition of gratitude as dwelling on goodness. Grateful people are characterized by a positive memory bias. Regret is a counterfactual emotion produced by perceptions of what might have been. On purposeful gratitude intervention and you-dont-know-what-you-got-til-its-gone: The way in which people think about positive life events is critical, namely whether they think about the presence of the events (e.g., I’m grateful that I was in Professor Wiseman’s class) or the absence of the events (e.g., imagine I had never met Professor Wiseman!). The latter impacted positive affect more than did the former. ... Thinking about how events might have not happened triggers surprise, and it is surprise that amplifies the event’s positivity. The role of gratitude in influencing construal of life histories: The grateful reappraisal of upsetting memories was shown to promote better emotional processing and closure of the upsetting open memories.
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