Happy People Become Happier through Kindness: A Counting Kindnesses Intervention

2006/08/25 by Keiko Otake, Satoshi Shimai, Junko Tanaka-Matsumi +3 · 6 citations
Psychology · #Cultural Differences and Values #Emotional Intelligence and Performance #Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction

paper · doi:10.1007/s10902-005-3650-z

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Citations

• The role of positive emotions in positive psychology: The broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions.
• Is gratitude a moral affect?
• Subjective well-being: The science of happiness and a proposal for a national index.
• The grateful disposition: A conceptual and empirical topography.
• Positive psychology: An introduction.

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• Who Cares? Generativity and the Moral Emotions, Part 2: A “Social Intuitionist Model” of Moral Motivation
• Altruism [wikipedia]