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Thank you card writer1/7/2023 Marooned alone on an unknown island with no apparent prospect of rescue or escape, Crusoe has much to lament. Students of mine in a political philosophy course at Indiana University are reading Daniel Defoe’s 300-year-old “Robinson Crusoe,” often regarded as the first novel published in English. While this research into gratitude is relatively new, the principles involved are anything but. The researchers found that writing as few as three weekly thank you notes over the course of three weeks improved life satisfaction, increased happy feelings and reduced symptoms of depression. Another study assessed the health benefits of writing thank you notes. One recent study asked subjects to write a note of thanks to someone and then estimate how surprised and happy the recipient would feel – an impact that they consistently underestimated. Gratitude may be more beneficial than we commonly suppose.
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