📈New research findings may help explain why gratitude has always been central to the practice of religion: gratitude is one affective mechanism through which religion is sustained.

Authors: Patty Van Cappellen, @amandabernal.bsky.social, Sara B. Algoe

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maybe more obvious to me as a child of immigrants socialized around other such people but categories here are not even used consistently by people who were socialized here - possibly because they don't actually make sense. it's quite possible that people from elsewhere just actually don't understand