Kelly McGonigal is a health psychologist and lecturer at Stanford University in California. She is also a yoga teacher and has written about yoga and gratitude.

Philip Watkins teaches psychology at Eastern Washington University in Cheney. He specializes in gratitude and has researched its relationship to spirituality.

Jan St. John is producer and host of Radio Gratitude, a San Francisco based-program that spotlights gratitude and altruism.

Sonja Lyubomirsky is a professor of psychology at University of California, Riverside. She studies human happiness. She has researched the effects of “counting one’s blessings” as a way of enhancing happiness.

Jo-Ann Tsang is an associate professor in the department of psychology and neuroscience at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. She has researched gratitude extensively.

Joan Borysenko of Colorado is an author and Harvard-trained medical scientist who specializes in mind-body topics. She has written about gratitude.

Dan P. McAdams is a professor of psychology and director of the Foley Center for the Study of Lives at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. McAdams’ research examines how people develop their identities, and he has studied “generativity,” adults’ concern for the next generation. His book The Redemptive Self: Stories Americans Live By, which finds personal redemption a major […]

Jack Bauer is a psychology professor at the University of Dayton in Ohio. He researches personal growth and self-identity. He can speak about the role that gratitude plays in determining personal well-being.

Barbara J. McClure is an associate professor of pastoral theology at Brite Divinity School in Fort Worth, Texas. Her interests include human flourishing and spiritual formation, and she has worked as a pastoral counselor. She can speak to the idea of gratitude and human flourishing.