
Grateful-ology (GRATITUDE) is not totally a real word
Ologies with Alie Ward
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The Benefits of Gratitude
Dr. Michael McCullough and Dr. Robert Emmons did a study that had three sets of participants. Those who were asked to write down weekly the things they were grateful for or compose a letter of thanks to a person. Another group wrote down their hassles of the week and then another just jotted down neutral events. They found that those who kept gratitude journals on a weekly basis exercised more regularly which is super weird.
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