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Original editorial illustration portrait of Robert Emmons
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Luminaries · 1958–

Robert Emmons

Emotional WellbeingHealth & Happiness

Established gratitude as a serious field of study and documented its relationship to wellbeing and health.

Robert Emmons is included in the Luminaries collection for work associated with Emotional Wellbeing and Health & Happiness. This profile offers a starting point for readers who want to place that work within the wider personal-development tradition.

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Luminaries

movement in the collection

1958–

life and work

2

focus areas

Ideas associated with the work

  • Explore the work through emotional wellbeing
  • Explore the work through health & happiness
“Gratitude is the acknowledgment of goodness in one's life.”

— Robert Emmons, Thanks!

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“Gratitude is the acknowledgment of goodness in one's life.”

— Robert Emmons, Thanks!

Established gratitude as a serious field of study and documented its relationship to wellbeing and health.

  • Emotional Wellbeing
  • Health & Happiness