From: New York Magazine
Why You Shouldn’t Race Through Those Thank-You Notes
New York Magazine:
Thank-you notes are the bane of newlyweds ever — they take forever, are drenched in overly saccharine language, and seem to serve little point other than adhering to an established social more. But a new study led by Lisa Williams of the University of New South Wales and published in the journalEmotion suggests that simple expressions of gratitude can help make others — even those who barely know you (those weird distant cousins of your significant other, for example) — feel more warmly toward you.
The study, UNSW’s press release explains, was designed to help test the find-remind-bind theory of gratitude, which “suggests gratitude helps people develop new relationships (find), build on existing relationships (remind), and maintain both (bind).”
In it, a group of 70 university students “were led to believe they were mentoring a high school student, and were asked to comment on a university admissions essay, supposedly written by the mentee.”
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