The Importance of "Thank You"

We often hear or say thank you, but do you realize the effect of these remarks on myself and that we accept it?

The study, published in Psychological Science to see the effects of thanks to the power of community, level of responsibility felt by a friend or spouse to the other. Earlier research has found that a thank you to strengthen relations and increase satisfaction. 

Research results show, to thank, not only helps the person receiving the greeting, but spoken. Speech was also able to repair and improve the capability of being when undergoing a social relationship. Facial expressions as described thank you to someone who is responsible for the people around you.

Although previous research concluded expression present moment to thank you satisfaction in a social relationship, newest research published online in Psychological Science noted, the expression time to thank not only the present satisfaction in a relationship but the communal forces in it, a level of responsibility that includes the people in the vicinity and the environment.


Research leaders, Nathaniel Lambert from Florida State University, Tallahassee declare the results of research so logical. "When you express gratitude, you focus on the good things that have been done for you. This makes you think positive and help you to focus on the right path, " he told HealthDay, last weekend.

Previously, Lambert and colleagues researched the repeated through three different research about expressing gratitude helps people strengthen relationships with other people.

In the first study, 137 students attend a series of surveys how they express gratitude to friends or relatives. The survey results indicate that, thank you in touch with the perception of a man who was so thick with communal ties.

In the second research, which questioned 218 students through a survey admitted having perception changes when interacting socially with people nearby and the neighborhood.

Entering the third study, Lambert and colleagues involved 75 men and women who are then randomly assigned to choose one of four groups that exist and follow the activity of the selected group of more than three weeks.

The first group required to say thank you to friends. Then in the second group, individuals should tell their friends. The third group, talks about daily activities and the fourth group to talk about the positive side to interact with friends.

Of the four earlier groups, the first group tend to appreciate a form of social relationships than other groups. "Someone who would like to thank so openly on social relations, more communal, willing to sacrifice and help of other individuals," said Lambert.

He also saw an individual who loves to say thank you to expect other individuals will also do the same. "In public relations today, some individuals do not see what was done to them. It's just a small friction about a thank you. It's potentially negative bullet change course toward a positive outlook on a relationship, " he said.

Separately, the expert psychologist from the University of Califormia Davis, Robert Emmons in his book titled Thanks!: How the New Science of Gratitude Can Make You Happier expressed gratitude to knit and bind people into a reciprocal relationship. "The biggest challenge of research is more difficult man to thank," in short.

"When someone does not feel it, research strongly indicates thank during this attachment will guide the individual emotionally," he said.

Well, have you get used to thank colleagues, family or your customer?