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| Title |
A Potential Role for mu-Opioids in Mediating the Positive Effects of Gratitude
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| Published in |
Frontiers in Psychology, June 2017
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| DOI | 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00868 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Max Henning, Glenn R. Fox, Jonas Kaplan, Hanna Damasio, Antonio Damasio |
| Abstract |
Gratitude is a complex emotional feeling associated with universally desirable positive effects in personal, social, and physiological domains. Why or how gratitude achieves these functional outcomes is not clear. Toward the goal of identifying its' underlying physiological processes, we recently investigated the neural correlates of gratitude. In our study, participants were exposed to gratitude-inducing stimuli, and rated each according to how much gratitude it provoked. As expected, self-reported gratitude intensity correlated with brain activity in distinct regions of the medial pre-frontal cortex associated with social reward and moral cognition. Here we draw from our data and existing literature to offer a theoretical foundation for the physiological correlates of gratitude. We propose that mu-opioid signaling (1) accompanies the mental experience of gratitude, and (2) may account for the positive effects of gratitude on social relationships, subjective wellbeing, and physiological health. |
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The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 26 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 12 | 46% |
| Spain | 2 | 8% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 4% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 4% |
| Unknown | 10 | 38% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 22 | 85% |
| Scientists | 4 | 15% |
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The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 97 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 96 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 14 | 14% |
| Professor | 11 | 11% |
| Student > Bachelor | 11 | 11% |
| Researcher | 8 | 8% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 5 | 5% |
| Other | 16 | 16% |
| Unknown | 32 | 33% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 26 | 27% |
| Neuroscience | 13 | 13% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 5 | 5% |
| Sports and Recreations | 5 | 5% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 3 | 3% |
| Other | 11 | 11% |
| Unknown | 34 | 35% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 72. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 20 February 2022.
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