GRATITUDE FELLOWS

2024-2025 Early Career and Graduate Student Research Grant Awardees

Meet the winners of our early career and graduate student research awards! During their funding year, the scholars below conducted research to advance the science of gratitude using archived data available in The Love Consortium Global Gratitude Dataverse.

These initiatives are part of our broader Global Gratitude Project.

Review the 2024-2025 RFP here.

MEET THE FELLOWS

Early Career Researchers

Gao-Xian Lin, Ph.D.

Empowering anxious parents: How parental gratitude boosts parental self efficacy and elevates parenting quality

Publications

National Tsing Hua University

Taiwan

Maximiliane Uhlich, Ph.D.

How best to thank your partner: Maximizing the benefits of gratitude conversations for relationship satisfaction

Website

University of Basel

Switzerland

Mariko Visserman, Ph.D.

In dissonance or harmony? A cultural perspective on gratitude, indebtedness, and their interaction in predicting prosocial behavior

Website

University of Sussex

United Kingdom

Graduate Students

Xiangjing Kong

Syracuse University

The role of approach and avoidance motives in gratitude expression and perception

Website

Project Mentor: Laura Machia

Syracuse University

United States

Hanieh Naeimi

University of Toronto

A person-centered approach to identifying profiles of gratitude and indebtedness across cultures and types of relationships

Website

Project Mentor: Emily Impett

University of Toronto

Canada

Claire Shimshock

University of Rochester

Unheard gratitude: How recipients’ responses to gratitude expressions shape couples’ well-being

Website

Project Mentor: Bonnie Le

University of Rochester

United States

Ruofan Ma

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Trait and state gratitude in dynamical systems of couples’ physiological (co)regulation and relationship outcomes

Publications

Project Mentor: Kristen Lindquist

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

United States

Emily O'Brien

University of Pittsburgh

I don’t deserve you: Investigating whether self-critical statements undermine the benefits of gratitude

Website

Project Mentor: Amanda Forest

University of Pittsburgh

United States

Kirby Sigler

University of Pittsburgh

I don’t deserve you: Investigating whether self-critical statements undermine the benefits of gratitude

Website

Project Mentor: Amanda Forest

University of Pittsburgh

United States

Emily Mendelson

University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

A narrative analysis of expressions of gratitude and love in the US, China, and Chile

Website

Project Mentor: John Caughlin

University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

United States

Haeyoung Gideon Park

University of Toronto

From fixed to growth: The links between implicit beliefs, perceived effort, and gratitude

Publications

Project Mentor: Young-Hoon Kim

Yonsei University

South Korea

Irene Teulings

University of Oslo, Norway

Gratitude and love: Exploring the distinctions in these emotions’ expressions and their links to wellbeing

Website

Project Mentor: Rui Sun

University of Chicago Booth

United States

GRATITUDE FELLOWS

2024-2025 Early Career and Graduate Student Research Grant Awardees

MEET THE FELLOWS

Early Career Researchers

Gao-Xian Lin, Ph.D.

Maximiliane Uhlich, Ph.D.

Mariko Visserman, Ph.D.

Graduate Students

Xiangjing Kong

Hanieh Naeimi

Claire Shimshock

Ruofan Ma

Emily O'Brien

Kirby Sigler

Emily Mendelson

Haeyoung Gideon Park

Irene Teulings

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