About the Author

Robert Emmons, PhD, is a Professor of Psychology and Lab Director of the Emmons Lab at University of California, Davis. He is the world's leading scientific expert on gratitude and the founding editor-in-chief of The Journal of Positive Psychology. He is a prominent speaker and the author of numerous books, including Gratitude Works!: A 21-Day Program for Creating Emotional Prosperity (Jossey Bass, 2013) and Thanks! How the New Science of Gratitude Can Make You Happier (Houghton Mifflin, 2008), The Psychology of Ultimate Concerns: Motivation and Spirituality in Personality (Guilford Press, 2003), The Psychology of Gratitude (OUP USA, 2004) and Words of Gratitude for Mind, Body and Soul (with Joanna Hill, Templeton Foundation Press, 2002) in addition to hundreds of articles.

Reviews

"When I want my executive coaching clients to understand the awesome power of gratitude in business and in life, I direct them to the pioneering research and inspired writing of positive psychology researcher, Robert Emmons. In The Little Book of Gratitude, Emmons has taken years of gratitude research and science-based practices and distilled them into this fun-to-read, immediately practical, and attractively slim volume. In today's world of competing priorities for our time, it's refreshing that you can read The Little Book of Gratitude during a long lunch or a short plane ride. Transform your life, read this book. Transfer your relationships, give this book to the people you care about." - David J. Pollay, best-selling author of The Law of the Garbage Truck and The 3 Promises, www.davidpollay.com