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Joel Wong, Ph.D., is a provost professor of counseling psychology at Indiana University, where he conducts research on gratitude interventions and practices. Joel also maintains a free Substack newsletter on the science and practice of gratitude.
We are usually grateful for good things that happened to us—but with a little imagination, we can also be grateful for bad things we avoided.
New research is starting to explore how gratitude works to improve our mental health.