The Cultivation of Pure Altruism via Gratitude: A Functional MRI Study of Change with Gratitude Practice
Gratitude is an emotion and a trait linked to well-being and better health, and welcoming benefits to oneself is instrumentally valuable. However, theoretical and empirical work highlights that gratitude is more fully understood as an intrinsically valuable moral emotion. To understand the role of n...
Main Authors: | Christina M. Karns, William E. Moore, Ulrich Mayr |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2017-12-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Human Neuroscience |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnhum.2017.00599/full |
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