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USC Neuroscientists Use Testimony in Groundbreaking Study of Gratitude
When someone gives you a gift or does you a favor, what’s happening in your brain?
That’s what researchers from USC’s Department of Psychology and Brain and Creativity Institute have just discovered, with the help of testimony from the Visual History Archive. The research team of Glenn Fox, Jonas Kaplan, Hanna Damasio and Antonio Damasio has revealed its findings in the paper “Neural correlates of gratitude,” now published in the academic journal Frontiers in Psychology.
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