The power of gratitude
On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti
WBUR
4.2 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Studies show that feeling grateful can make you more patient, honest, generous and even help with your sleep and immune system. Psychologist David DeSteno on how to practice gratitude daily.
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| 0:59.5 | For many Americans, tomorrow is a day of giving thanks. |
| 1:04.1 | Expressing gratitude feels really good and it does good, both for you and the community you live in. |
| 1:10.2 | But to truly reap the benefits of gratitude, |
| 1:13.1 | our guest says it must be a conscious and active daily practice, not just something we set |
| 1:18.9 | aside for the fourth Thursday in November once a year. |
| 1:22.5 | Dave Desteno joins us. He's a professor of psychology at Northeastern University, and his |
| 1:26.8 | research focuses on something called moral emotions. He's also professor of psychology at Northeastern University, and his research focuses on |
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