The unmatchable brightness of doing: Experiential consumption facilitates greater satisfaction than spending on material possessions

A Kumar - Current Opinion in Psychology, 2022 - Elsevier
Living in a consumerist society can afford material abundance, but these gains can bring
psychological costs. A developed literature suggests experiential purchases (such as trips or …

The benefits of reflecting on gratitude received at home for leaders at work: Insights from three field experiments.

JJ Hu, D Kim, K Lanaj - Journal of Applied Psychology, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
Expressions of gratitude by leaders tend to yield positive effects in the workplace. Leaders,
however, are not solely bestowers of gratitude but also recipients of it. Although leaders are …

Kindness in short supply: Evidence for inadequate prosocial input

JE Abel, P Vani, N Abi-Esber, H Blunden… - Current Opinion in …, 2022 - Elsevier
In everyday life, people often have opportunities to improve others' lives, whether offering
well-intentioned advice or complimenting someone on a job well done. These are …

“Thanks, but no thanks”: Gratitude expression paradoxically signals distance.

J Yu, SJ Chaudhry - Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
Many studies have found that feelings and expressions of gratitude bring profound benefits
to people and relationships. We complicate this view of gratitude. We examine two variables …

Habitual expressive suppression of positive, but not negative, emotions consistently predicts lower well-being across two culturally distinct regions

CWF Yu, CM Haase, JH Chang - Affective Science, 2023 - Springer
Habitual expressive suppression (ie, a tendency to inhibit the outward display of one's
emotions; hereafter suppression) is often conceptualized as a maladaptive emotion …

Giving and receiving thanks: a mixed methods pilot study of a gratitude intervention for palliative patients and their carers

M Bernard, E Poncin, E Bovet, E Tamches, B Cantin… - BMC palliative …, 2023 - Springer
Background Psychological research examining the nature and workings of gratitude has
burgeoned over the past two decades. However, few studies have considered gratitude in …

Believe, express, and enjoy: Utility beliefs about social emotion expression consistently predict satisfactory outcomes

CW Yu, JH Chang - Motivation and Emotion, 2023 - Springer
The present study investigates the association between people's beliefs about emotion and
their overall satisfaction with a social interaction. We focus on three specific aspects to …

Network analysis of gratitude messages in the learning community

M Yoshida - International Journal of Educational Technology in …, 2022 - Springer
In pedagogical practice, gratitude is recognised not as an emotion, but as an approach to
learning. This study introduced gratitude messages into the academic online communication …

Consumption sacrifice

X Garcia‐Rada, T Kim, PJ Liu - Journal of Consumer …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Much marketing research focuses on what individual consumers need or want for
consumption and how they satisfy these needs or wants themselves. However, consumers …

Correlation between psychological traits and the use of smart medical services in young and middle-aged adults: An observational study

H Zhang, Y Liu, R Gu - World Journal of Psychiatry, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
BACKGROUND Psychological problems affect economic development. However, there is a
huge gap between mental health service resources and mental health service needs …