November 2020
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Grateful people report better psychological, social, and physical well‐being, and experimental evidence indicates that prompting people to express gratitude consistently boosts psychological and social well‐being. Thus far, experimental evidence linking gratitude to physical health is limited, but accumulating correlational and prospective evidence demonstrates that grateful people may experience better physical health via greater psychological and social well‐being, sleep quality and duration, healthy activities (e.g., exercise), and willingness to seek help for health concerns. In sum, the relationship between gratitude and psychological and social well‐being is strong and causal, but the relationship between gratitude and physical well‐being is currently limited but suggestive.