Project Outputs


Anderson, M.L. (2022). “Giving Thanks for the Gift of Life: Karl Barth on Gratitude to God for One’s Own Life.” Religions, 13(10), 959. MDPI AG. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel13100959


Anderson, M.L. (2022). “Gratitude for (One’s Own) Life.” American Philosophical Quarterly


Cockayne, J., & Salter, G. (2022). Liturgical Gratitude to God. Religions, 13(9), 795. MDPI AG. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel13090795


Cohoe, Caleb M. (2022, September). “Endurance, Acceptance, or Constitutional Gratitude: Non-Theistic and Theistic Attitudes to Suffering.” Religions, vol. 13, no. 10, 2022, p. 1005., https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13101005


Dunnington, K. (2022). “The Distinctiveness of Christian Gratitude: A Theological Survey.” Religions, 13(10), 889. MDPI AG. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel13100889


East, B. (2022, January 13). “Grace Upon Grace: Toward a Christian grammar of gratitude.” Comment Magazine.


East, B. (2022). “Is scripture a gift? Reflections on the divine-ecclesial provision of the canon.” Religions, 13(10), 961. MDPI AG. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13100961


Emmons, R.A., & Afshar, M. (2021). Gratitude as the foundation for joy. Journal of Youth and Theology.


Emmons, R.A. (in press) Gratitude: A virtue as vast as life itself? In N. Vette & M. Siddiqui (Eds.), A Theology of Gratitude: Christian and Muslim Perspectives. New York: Cambridge University Press.


Emmons, R.A. (in press) Is gratitude the foundation of benevolence? In. J. F. Fontrodona (Ed.), Can Benevolence Change the World? London: Routledge.


Emmons, R.A. (in press). The virtual gratitude visit. In S.D. Pressman & A.C. Parks (Eds.) Activities for Teaching Positive Psychology: A Guide for Instructors (Volume 2). American Psychological Association.


Emmons, R.A., & Rashedi, R. (in press) “The good life and positive psychology.” In D. Collins (Ed)., Comparative Perspectives On a Life Worth Living. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press.


Exline, J.J., & Wilt, J.A. (2022). “Gratitude to God: Brief Prompts Do Not Increase It, Wording of Questions Matters, and Belief in a Loving, Powerful, Gift-Giving God Remains Central.” Religions, 13(9), 791. MDPI AG. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel13090791


Harris, J.E. (2022). “The Human Arts of Graceful Giving and Grateful Receiving.” Renovation: The Journal of Zaytuna College; Are we One and the Same? Vol. 5 No. 1 Pg. 11.


Harris, J.E. (2023). Existential gratitude: A social-structural account. In J.E. Harris, K. Lougheed, & N. DeRoo (Eds.) Philosophical Perspectives on Existential Gratitude. (pp. 13-30). Bloomsbury Publishing, London, UK. 


Kaczor, C. (2022). “Thomas Aquinas on Gratitude to God.” Religions, 13(8), 692. MDPI AG. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel13080692


Keefer, L.A., & Fetterman, A.K. “Building on a solid foundation: conceptual mapping informs schemas for relating to God.” International Journal for the Psychology of Religion.


Nelson, J.M., Schnitker, S.A., Williams, E., & Tsang, J.-A. (2022) Intangible Benefactors and the Contribution of Construal Level and Attitude Accessibility in Predicting Gratitude and Expansive Emotions. Religions, 13(9), 866. MDPI AG. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel13090866


Nelson, J. M. (2022, August). “The Forgotten Teaching of King Benjamin.” Line Upon Line. (online publication).


Nelson, J., Hardy, S.A., & Watkins, P. (in press) “Transcendent indebtedness to God: A new construct and measure.” Psychology of Religiosity and Spirituality.


Oishi, S., Cha, Y. (submitted) “Gratitude, Indebtedness and God: Is Gratitude to God Different from Indebtedness to God?” Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.


Oishi, S., Uskul, A.K., (in press) “A Cross-Cultural Method in Social and Personality Psychology: The Cultural Imagination.” Handbook of Research Methods in Social and Personality Psychology.


Park, C.L., et al. (2022). “Gratitude to God: A Unique Construct Adding to Our Understanding of Religiousness and Gratitude.” Religions, vol. 13, no. 9, p. 872., https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13090872


Park, C.L., George, J.R., Awao, S., Carney, L.M., Batt, S., & Salsman, J.M. (2022). U.S. Federal Investment in Religiousness/Spirituality and Health Research: A Systematic Review. Religions, 13(8), 725. MDPI AG. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel13080725


Serazin, A., & Emmons, R.A. (2021, November 12). “How gratitude can help combat climate change.” Time, https://time.com/6116973/gratitude-combat-climate-change


Tay, L., Thapa, S., Newman, D.B., & Choudhury, M.D. (2022). Using Social Media to Assess Expressions of Gratitude to God: Issues for Consideration. Religions, 13(9), 778. MDPI AG. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel13090778


Tsang, J., Schnitker, S.A., Emmons, R.A., & Hill, P.C. (2021). “Feeling the intangible: antecedents of gratitude toward intangible benefactors.” The Journal of Positive Psychology, 1-17.


Van Cappellen, P., & Edwards, M. Emotion expression in context: Full body postures of Christian prayer orientations compared to specific emotions. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10919-021-00370-6


Vaughn, J.M., King, P.E., Mangan, S., Noe, S., Hay, S., O’Neil, B., Tirrell, J.M., et al. (2022). Agentic and Receptive Hope: Understanding Hope in the Context of Religiousness and Spirituality through the Narratives of Salvadoran Youth. Religions, 13(4), 376. MDPI AG. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel13040376


Watkins, P., Frederick, M., & Davis, D.E. (2022). “Gratitude to God Predicts Religious Well-Being over Time.” Religions, 13(8), 675. MDPI AG. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel13080675


Watkins, P.C., Frederick, M., & Dodson, A. (in press). “Gratitude and happiness: The causes and consequences of gratitude.” In F. Irtelli & F. Gabrielli (Eds), Happiness—Biopsychosocial and Anthropological Perspectives. IntechOpen. 


Watkins, P.C., Munger, P., Hutton, B., Elliot, K., & Mathews, A. (in press). “Modifying interpretation bias leads to congruent changes in gratitude.” Journal of Positive Psychology. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17439760.2021.1940249


White, C., Johnson, K.A., & Mirbozorgi, B. (2022, August 24). “Unique Cognitive and Emotional Profiles of Interpersonal Gratitude and Spiritual Gratitude.” https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/3tcvs


Wilt, J.A., & Exline, J.J. (2022). “Personality Predictors of Gratitude to God: Examining the Roles of Positive Emotional Traits and Adaptive Relational Styles.” Religions, 13(9), 839. MDPI AG. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel13090839


Wilt, J.A., & Exline, J.J. (2022). Receiving a gift from God in times of trouble: Links between gratitude to God, the affective circumplex, and perceived closeness to God. Mental Health, Religion & Culture, 25(3), 362-379. https://doi.org/10.1080/13674676.2022.2033710