The practice of gratitude should be a regular habit

Dr. Gary L. Welton

Dr. Gary L. Welton

Dr. Gary L. Welton



Posted: Wednesday, November 27, 2013 12:00 am

The practice of gratitude should be a regular habit

Dr. Gary L. Welton

The Times Leader

Historically, the field of psychology focus ed on mental illness and dysfunction. Posi tive psychology devel op ed as a unique new sub discipline as recently as 1998. Instead of investigating the question of what went wrong, positive psychology seeks to understand the ful filling aspects of the human experience.


One aspect of life that has received much attention in this new field is the expression of gratitude. According to PsycNET, the database that indexes much of the psychological research, there were only 30 articles from 1989 to 1993 that dealt in any way with gratitude. In the next five years the number doubled to 66. The redoubling has continued every five years, so that in the current stretch from 2009 to 2013, there have been more than 640 articles dealing with gratitude. The science of mental processing has finally caught up to Abraham Lincoln and our national holiday.

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