Sara B. Algoe

Overview

Best Publications

• Witnessing excellence in action: the ‘other-praising’ emotions of elevation, gratitude, and admiration

  Sara B. Algoe;Jonathan Haidt

  1772
  Citations

• Beyond reciprocity: gratitude and relationships in everyday life

  Sara B. Algoe;Jonathan Haidt;Shelly L. Gable

  1193
  Citations

• How Positive Emotions Build Physical Health Perceived Positive Social Connections Account for the Upward Spiral Between Positive Emotions and Vagal Tone

  Bethany E. Kok;Kimberly A. Coffey;Michael A. Cohn;Lahnna I. Catalino

  1040
  Citations

• Find, Remind, and Bind: The Functions of Gratitude in Everyday Relationships

  Sara B. Algoe

  938
  Citations

• It's the little things: Everyday gratitude as a booster shot for romantic relationships

  Sara B. Algoe;Shelly L. Gable;Natalya C. Maisel

  678
  Citations

• A functional genomic perspective on human well-being.

  Barbara L. Fredrickson;Karen M. Grewen;Kimberly A. Coffey;Sara B. Algoe

  656
  Citations

• Social Network Sites and Well-Being: The Role of Social Connection:

  Jenna L. Clark;Sara B. Algoe;Melanie C. Green

  456
  Citations

• The social functions of the emotion of gratitude via expression.

  Sara B. Algoe;Barbara L. Fredrickson;Shelly L. Gable

  442
  Citations

• Positive psychology in a pandemic: buffering, bolstering, and building mental health

  Lea Waters;Sara B. Algoe;Jane Dutton;Robert Emmons

  334
  Citations

• Prioritizing Positivity: An effective approach to pursuing happiness?

  Lahnna I. Catalino;Sara B. Algoe;Barbara L. Fredrickson

  232
  Citations

• Psychological Well-Being and the Human Conserved Transcriptional Response to Adversity

  Barbara L. Fredrickson;Karen M. Grewen;Sara B. Algoe;Ann M. Firestine

  225
  Citations

• It's a wonderful life: mentally subtracting positive events improves people's affective states, contrary to their affective forecasts.

  Minkyung Koo;Sara B. Algoe;Timothy D. Wilson;Daniel T. Gilbert

  213
  Citations

• Gratitude when it is needed most: social functions of gratitude in women with metastatic breast cancer.

  Sara B. Algoe;Annette L. Stanton

  204
  Citations

• Emotional fitness and the movement of affective science from lab to field.

  Sara B. Algoe;Barbara L. Fredrickson

  187
  Citations

• Positive Emotion Correlates of Meditation Practice: a Comparison of Mindfulness Meditation and Loving-Kindness Meditation

  Barbara L. Fredrickson;Aaron J. Boulton;Ann M. Firestine;Patty Van Cappellen

  183
  Citations

• Positive psychology in context: : Effects of expressing gratitude in ongoing relationships depend on perceptions of enactor responsiveness

  Sara B. Algoe;Ruixue Zhaoyang

  165
  Citations

• Putting the “You” in “Thank You” Examining Other-Praising Behavior as the Active Relational Ingredient in Expressed Gratitude

  Sara B. Algoe;Laura E. Kurtz;Nicole M. Hilaire

  143
  Citations

• Putting laughter in context: Shared laughter as behavioral indicator of relationship well-being

  Laura E. Kurtz;Sara B. Algoe

  127
  Citations

• Evidence for a Role of the Oxytocin System, Indexed by Genetic Variation in CD38, in the Social Bonding Effects of Expressed Gratitude

  Sara B. Algoe;Baldwin M. Way

  115
  Citations

• A new perspective on the social functions of emotions: Gratitude and the witnessing effect.

  Sara B. Algoe;Patrick C. Dwyer;Ayana Younge;Christopher Oveis

  92
  Citations

• Moral amplification and the emotions that attach us to saints and demons

  Jonathan Haidt;Sara Algoe

  87
  Citations