How Can Gratitude Make You Happier?

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Psychologists blair justice and reda justice were huge advocates for gratitude in general. They wrote books on it, did research into the effects of gratefulness on physical well being. Doctor mc culliff and doctor emmons did one study that had three sets of participants. Participants who kept gratitude lists were more likely to have made progress toward important goals over a two month period compared to other subjects.

As a friend of a friend's hairdresser once said: "it's hard to be hateful with a plateful of grateful." Is it? In this pre-holidays quickie episode, Alie is grumpy as hell and decides to research the neuroscience of gratitude. Does it work? Who's studying it? Does she need to buy a journal? Find out how jotting down things you don't hate on the back of a receipt or opening a secret Twitter account may be worth more than whatever you get in your office Secret Santa exchange.

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