The Korean Journal of Health Psychology
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The Effect of Priming Gratitude on the Feeling Thermometer
Abstract
In this study, we examined the effects of the imagery components of Loving-kindness & Compassion Meditation on impression formation. We designed two experiments to examine the effect of priming gratitude. Participants were asked to remember the imagery of a thankful person for a priming gratitude task, and then they were asked to complete an impression formation task. In Experiment 1, college students were randomly assigned to the gratitude primed condition and the positive person primed condition. We then compared the variables of assessing the person in the impression formation task. The results showed that the participants in the gratitude primed condition tended to record a higher score on the feeling thermometer over the participants in the positive person primed condition, but the results were not statistically significant. In Experiment 2, the neutral imagery primed condition was added to the design of Experiment 1, and we examined Experiment 2 according to the same procedure as Experiment 1. The college students were randomly assigned to the gratitude primed condition, the positive person primed condition, and the neutral imagery primed condition, respectively. The results showed that there was a significant difference between the three groups on the feeling thermometer. These results suggest that activating the concept of gratitude has an influence on the perception of interpersonal relationships. We suggest that it is necessary to acquire more diversity through measurement of miscellaneous dependant variables set on varied context and by differentiation on the methods of priming.
- keywords
- priming, gratitude, compassion, feeling thermometer, meditation, 점화, 감사, 자비, 감정온도, 명상
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