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WHY WE SHOULD SHARE OUR GOOD NEWS (NOT JUST OUR STRUGGLES)

A new study suggests that when people respond enthusiastically to our good news,
we feel more grateful and closer to them—especially as we age.
By Jill Suttie | January 23, 2024
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Have you ever had something good happen to you and felt like shouting it from
the rooftops? There’s something about sharing good news that seems to enhance
the positive feelings we get from happy events in our lives, which is what
researchers call “capitalization.”

Capitalizing on positive events by sharing them with others—and receiving an
enthusiastic response in return—has been tied to many good outcomes, including
closer relationships and greater happiness. Now, a new study suggests another
benefit of sharing the good stuff: more feelings of gratitude.


GOOD NEWS, MORE GRATITUDE, BETTER RELATIONSHIPS

The researchers started by asking their almost 300 participants (ages 25 to 85)
about their demographics (like race), their general health, how often they
tended to share good news, and how other people in their lives generally
responded to their good news: Did they show enthusiasm or interest (like
offering congratulations), draw attention to potential negatives (like pointing
out a promotion might mean more stress), or ignore the good news altogether?

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Then, six times a day for 10 days, the researchers prompted participants to
report on how grateful they were in the moment, how recently they’d had a social
encounter, if they’d shared good news with that person, and how close they felt
to the person as a result.

Afterward, the researchers analyzed the results to look for patterns. They found
that those people who shared positive events with others felt more grateful in
the moment and closer to the person with whom they shared the news. In addition,
people with a tendency to share good news and receive enthusiastic responses
were the most grateful in the group, overall.

Study coauthor Alexandra Gray of Northeastern University says these findings
suggest sharing good news is a way to enhance gratitude and reap the rewards of
that.

“When you share positive events with other people, you experience gratitude,”
says Gray. “We know gratitude has its own benefits, like increased well-being or
increased relationship quality with the person you’re interacting with,
strengthening your social bond with them.”

How does sharing good news lead to gratitude? Verbalizing good news calls
attention to the good things happening in your life, says Gray. For example, you
might tell a friend what a great time you had over the holidays, and in
recounting what happened, you can re-experience the positive feelings and become
even more appreciative.

Getting an enthusiastic response to your good news is also important, says Gray,
because it makes you feel recognized, validated, and cared for in a way that
strengthens your relationship—and also leads to gratitude. It’s easy to imagine
that if your friend asks you to tell them more about it, rather than pointing
out the inanity of the holidays or changing the subject entirely, it will bring
up your gratitude a notch or two.


SOME ARE BETTER THAN OTHERS AT CAPITALIZING ON POSITIVE EVENTS

While a person’s physical health didn’t seem related to these effects at all,
their age did. Older adults experienced more gratitude when they perceived their
interaction partners as typically enthusiastic, supportive responders to their
good news. This might be due to how older adults tend to focus more on positive
emotions in their social interactions and look for social connections that
support their well-being. 

Though Gray and her team didn’t look at who, exactly, were the recipients of the
good news (such as friends, relatives, romantic partners, or colleagues), some
research suggests that sharing good news with loved ones strengthens those
relationships and leads to more positive feelings, while other studies suggest
the closeness of the relationship may not be that important. This latter
research interests Gray, who thinks it could mean that sharing good news with
strangers might increase gratitude, too.

“When sharing good news, it doesn’t really matter who the social partner is;
it’s so much more about what kinds of responses that they’re providing,” she
says.

However, culture may play a role in how people share good news and the benefits
of doing so. Some East Asian cultures don’t tend to value the expression of
positive emotion as much as Western cultures do, says Gray, perhaps because it
seems too self-aggrandizing. On the other hand, she says, more recent work finds
that people from East Asian cultures do actually value enthusiastic responses to
their good news, as well as more understated but supportive responses.


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While her study’s participants, who were largely Black and white Americans,
found that sharing good news had real benefits, says Gray, people didn’t share
good news frequently—only about 25% of the times they were surveyed. To help
understand why, Gray’s next research project will look at whether people
underestimate the benefits of sharing good news—particularly with strangers—just
like they underestimate the benefits of socializing or being kind to others.

“If someone knows that they’re going to have an opportunity to share a positive
event with a stranger, they’ll likely be a little apprehensive and maybe think
the conversation won’t be comfortable or flow well or be pleasurable,” she says.
“But I have a feeling . . . that people will be surprised at how much they
actually enjoy this positive interaction, even with a stranger.”

Though there’s still more research to be done, Gray suggests people not hold
back on sharing their good news with others—or on showing enthusiasm when others
share good news with them. Since people feel more grateful and closer to others
when capitalizing on positive events, and will do it more often when receiving
positive reinforcement for doing so, we all have a role to play in helping
positivity spread.

“The results suggest that we should be sharing positive events, but also try to
encourage other people to share good events with us, so that we can give them
those positive responses,” says Gray. “Maybe once people see how good it feels,
they’ll look for future opportunities to share good news and get the ball
rolling—opening the door for others to share their good experiences and becoming
a cycle that goes on and on.”

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 * JILL SUTTIE
   
   Jill Suttie, Psy.D., is Greater Good’s former book review editor and now
   serves as a staff writer and contributing editor for the magazine. She
   received her doctorate of psychology from the University of San Francisco in
   1998 and was a psychologist in private practice before coming to Greater
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