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How Does Gratitude Affect Health and Aging?

By Wendy Berry Mendes | September 2014 | TRT 11:25

By Nipun Mehta

By Chris Murchison

By Giacomo Bono

By Sara Algoe

By Andrea Hussong

By Alex Wood

How Gratitude Changes You and Your Brain

Free and online: Join us Thursday, Nov. 21, from 10:30–11:30 a.m. PT for a special conversation on the benefits of gratitude, along with practical techniques for people, and practitioners, to easily incorporate it into day-to-day life.

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Wendy Berry Mendes

Wendy Berry Mendes, Ph.D., is the Sarlo/Ekman Associate Professor of Emotion at UC San Francisco. Her research questions sit at the…

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