The Gratitude Experiment

Which group in the Gratitude Experiment had the highest level of well-being?

• The group that wrote about what they were grateful for everyday

• The group that wrote about things that annoyed them.

• The group that wrote about whatever popped into their head.

Practicing Gratitude increase your happiness. True or False?

• True

• False

Which is a healthy coping skill for stress?

• Make a list of what you are thankful for

• Screaming at your sister

• Kicking a door

• lie

What is the effect of writing down what you are thankful for?

• It is a waste of time.

• it will make you sad.

• It will trigger happiness in your brain.

In the Gratitude experiment how many years of research did Dr. Emmons do on the science of happiness?

• 53

• 10

• 2

How can you show your gratitude to someone? Choose all that apply.

• Make them Dinner.

• Say "Thank you" and tell them why you are grateful.

• Ignore them

• Write them a card or draw them a picture explaining why you are grateful

Scientists say our level of happiness stays constant most of the time. Why is that?

• We take the things that make us happy for granted

• Because don't exercise enough.

• Because we eat too much junk food.

How can we increase our happiness?

• By noticing the little things and the big things we are grateful for

• By buying more things

• By complaining and venting.

• By getting more popular.

What are the 8 Coping strategies we talked about in class?

• 1. write out a positive plan

  2.  Exercise

  3.  Talk to a friend or trusted adult

  4.  Draw or Create

  5.  Eat well

  6.  Use humor

  7.  take time to relax (Yoga, meditate, take a bath)

  8. Be Grateful!

• 1. Yell

  2.  run away

  3.  ignore the problem

  4.  Draw or Create

  5.  Eat too much

  6.  Use humor

  7.  take time to relax (Yoga, meditate, take a bath)

  8. Be Grateful!

• 1. write out a positive plan

  2.  ignore the problem

  3.  Talk to a friend or trusted adult

  4.  swim

  5.  Eat too much

  6.  Use sarcasm

  7.  jog

  8. Be Grateful

What is gratitude?

• Appreciating a person, place, or thing in your life and you know why you appreciate them.

• Being thankful but forgetting it.

• Complimenting someone.