• DOI:10.1159/000511185
Corpus ID: 224817296

What Is Gratitude? Ingratitude Provides the Answer

@article{Navarro2020WhatIG,
  title={What Is Gratitude? Ingratitude Provides the Answer},
  author={J. L. Navarro and Jonathan R. H. Tudge},
  journal={Human Development},
  year={2020},
  volume={64},
  pages={83 - 96}
}

J. L. Navarro, Jonathan R. H. Tudge

Published 2020

Psychology

Human Development

Current scholarship on “gratitude” has largely ignored its opposite – ingratitude. As a result, gratitude is no longer distinguishable from constructs such as appreciation and happiness. This was not the case over previous centuries – ingratitude was viewed as something monstrous, a failure to reciprocate would loosen the bonds holding society together. The opposite, gratitude, was seen as a virtue. Reciprocity has come under attack because “obligation” has been understood in only one of two… CONTINUE READING

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