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An Adaptation for Altruism

The Social Causes, Social Effects, and Social Evolution of Gratitude

Datos Bibliográficos

ID19599365
AutoresMichael E Mccullough (0000-0001-9833-2713, University of Miami, autor de correspondencia), Marcia Beth Kimeldorf (University of Miami), Adam Cohen (0000-0003-2719-3351, University of Miami), Adam D Cohen (University of Miami)
Año2008
Volumen17
Número4
Páginas281-285
Fecha de publicación2008-07-28
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCurrent Directions in Psychological Science (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0963-7214 • E-ISSN: 1467-8721
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-8721.2008.00590.x
OpenAlexW2149796877
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas109
Referencias citadas22

People feel grateful when they have benefited from someone's costly, intentional, voluntary effort on their behalf. Experiencing gratitude motivates beneficiaries to repay their benefactors and to extend generosity to third parties. Expressions of gratitude also reinforce benefactors for their generosity. These social features distinguish gratitude from related emotions such as happiness and feelings of indebtedness. Evolutionary theories propose that gratitude is an adaptation for reciprocal altruism (the sequential exchange of costly benefits between nonrelatives) and, perhaps, upstream reciprocity (a pay-it-forward style distribution of an unearned benefit to a third party after one has received a benefit from another benefactor). Gratitude therefore may have played a unique role in human social evolution

Feeling · Generosity · Gratitude · Happiness · Norm of reciprocity · Political science · Prosocial behavior · Social capital · Cultural Differences and Values · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation · Law · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction · Psychology · Social Psychology

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