Abstract
Think of a person in your life you're grateful for—why are you grateful for them? This is a standard prompt for one of the oldest and most reliable gratitude interventions ever studied: the gratitude journal. A few years ago, right around the holidays, journalist Barbara Ehrenreich wrote a New York Times op-ed declaiming the perils of gratitude journals, gratitude letters, and other exercises designed to strengthen your appreciation muscle. “All you have to do is to generate, within yourself, the good feelings associated with gratitude, and then bask in its warm, comforting glow,” Ehrenreich observed, skeptically. “If there is any loving involved in this, it is self-love….” New research shows that, in fact, the emotional experience of gratitude is complex.
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