If you’d like a copy of any of these papers, please send me an email (jrtudge@uncg.edu) and I’ll be happy to send you a copy.

Book – Developing Gratitude in Children and Adolescents

Tudge, J. R. H., & Freitas, L. B. L. (2018). (Eds.) Developing gratitude in children and adolescents. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Now available for purchase – CLICK HERE

Chapters and Articles 

• Freitas, L. B. L., Merçon-Vargas, E. A., Palhares, F., & Tudge, J. R. H. (2019). Assessing variations in the expression of gratitude in youth: A three-cohort replication in southern Brazil.  Current Psychology.
• Liang, Y., Tudge, J. R. H., Mokrova, I. L., Freitas, L. B. L., Merçon-Vargas, E. A., Mendonça, S. A., O’Brien, L., Cao, H., & Zhou, N. (2019). Validation in China and the United States of the Related–Autonomous–Separate–Heteronomous (RASH) scale: An assessment tool for measuring parents’ developmental goals for their children. Current Psychology.
• Mendonça, S. E., Navarro, J. L., & Tudge, J. R. H. (2019). Gratitude. In J. J. Ponzetti, Jr. (Ed.), The Macmillan encyclopedia of families, marriage, and intimate relationships. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Publishing.
• Mendonça, S. E., Merçon-Vargas, E. A., Payir, A., & Tudge, J. R. H. (2018). The development of gratitude in seven societies: Cross-cultural highlights. In Cross-Cultural Research, Special Issue on Cross-cultural variations in the development of the virtue of gratitude (Eds. E. A. Merçon-Vargas, K. Poelker, & J. R. H. Tudge), 52, 135–150. doi: 10.1177/1069397117737245
• Merçon-Vargas, E. A., Poelker, K., & Tudge, J. R. H. (2018). The development of the virtue of gratitude: Theoretical foundations and cross-cultural issues. In Cross-Cultural Research, Special Issue on Cross-cultural variations in the development of the virtue of gratitude (Eds. E. A. Merçon-Vargas, K. Poelker, & J. R. H. Tudge), 52, 3–18. doi: 10.1177/1069397117736517
• Mokrova, I. L., Merçon-Vargas, E. A., & Tudge, J. R. H. (2018). Wishes, gratitude, and spending preferences in Russian children. In Cross-Cultural Research, Special Issue on Cross-cultural variations in the development of the virtue of gratitude (Eds. E. A. Merçon-Vargas, K. Poelker, & J. R. H. Tudge), 52, 102–116. doi: 10.1177/1069397117736736
• Palhares, F., Freitas, L. B. L., Merçon-Vargas, E. A., & Tudge, J. R. H. (2018). The development of gratitude in Brazilian children and adolescents. In Cross-Cultural Research, Special Issue on Cross-cultural variations in the development of the virtue of gratitude (Eds. E. A. Merçon-Vargas, K. Poelker, & J. R. H. Tudge), 52, 31–43. doi: 10.1177/1069397117736749
• Tudge, J. R. H., & Freitas, L. B. L. (2018). Developing gratitude: An introduction. In J. R. H. Tudge & L. B. L. Freitas (Eds.), Developing gratitude in children and adolescents (pp. 1–22). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
• Tudge, J. R. H., Freitas, L. B. L., O’Brien, L. T., & Mokrova, I. L. (2018). Methods for studying the virtue of gratitude, cross-culturally. In Cross-Cultural Research, Special Issue on Cross-cultural variations in the development of the virtue of gratitude (Eds. E. A. Merçon-Vargas, K. Poelker, & J. R. H. Tudge), 52, 19–30. doi: 10.1177/1069397117737017
• Tudge, J. R. H., Freitas, L. B. L., & O’Brien, L. T. (2018). Development of the virtue of gratitude. In M. Bornstein (Ed.), The Sage encyclopedia of lifespan human development (1001–1003). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
• Freitas, L. B. L., Tudge, J. R. H., Palhares, F. M. C., & Prestes, A. C. (2016). Relações entre desenvolvimento da gratidão e construção de valores em jovens [The relations between the development of gratitude and the construction of values in youth]. Psicologia, Revista da Universidade de São Francisco, 21(1), 13–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1413-82712016210102
• Kiang, L., Mendonça, S., Liang, Y., Payir, A., O’Brien, L., Tudge, J., & Freitas, L (2016). If children won lotteries: Materialism, gratitude, and spending in an imaginary windfall. Young Consumers, 17(4), 404–418.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/YC-07-2016-00614
• Merçon-Vargas, E. A., Pieta, M. A., Freitas, L. B. L., & Tudge, J. R. H. (2016). Social-class influences on the expression of gratitude and wishes of Brazilian children and adolescents: A within-culture analysis.  Psicologia, Revista da Universidade de São Francisco, 21(3), 651–652.
• Freitas, L. B. L., Tudge, J. R. H., Palhares, F. M. C., & Prestes, A. C. (2016). Relações entre desenvolvimento da gratidão e construção de valores em jovens [The relations between the development of gratitude and the construction of values in youth]. Psicologia, Revista da Universidade de São Francisco, 21(1), 13–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1413-82712016210102
• Tudge, J. R. H., Freitas, L. B. L., & O’Brien, L. T. (2015). The virtue of gratitude: A developmental and cultural approach. Human Development, 58(4), 281–300.
• Martins, G. F., Gonçalves, T. R, Marin, A. H., Piccinini, C. A., Sperb, T. M., & Tudge, J. R. H. (2015). Social class, workplace experience, and child-rearing values of mothers and fathers in southern Brazil.  Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 46, 996-1009. doi: 10.1177/0022022115597067
• Tudge, J. R. H., Freitas, L. B. L., Wang, Y. C., Mokrova, I. L., & O’Brien, M. (2015). The expression of gratitude and materialism in youth.  Paidéia, 25(62), 281-288. doi:10.1590/1982-43272562201501
• Wang, D., Wang, Y. C., & Tudge, J. R. H. (2015).  Expressions of gratitude in children and adolescents: Insights from China and the United States.  Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. DOI: 10.1177/0022022115594140
• Prestes, A. C., Castro, F. M. P., Tudge, J. R. H., & Freitas, L. B. L. (2014). Desenvolvimento de valores em crianças e adolescentes [The development of children’s and adolescents’ values]. A Revista de Estudo e Comunicações Leopoldianum, 40(110–112), 25–36.
• Nelson, J. A., Freitas, L. B. L., O’Brien, M., Calkins, S. D., Leerkes, E. M., & Marcovitch, S. (2013). Preschool-aged children’s understanding of gratitude: Relations with emotion and mental state knowledge. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 31(1), 42–56.
• Freitas, L. B. L., O’Brien, M., Nelson, J. A., & Marcovitch, S. (2012). A compreensão da gratidão e teoria da mente em crianças de 5 anos [The understanding of gratitude and theory of mind in 5-year-olds]. Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica, 25, 330–338.
• Freitas, L. B. L., Mileski, A. Z., & Tudge, J. R. H. (2011). O juízo moral das crianças sobre a ingratidão [The moral judgment of children about ingratitude].  Aletheia, 34(1), 6-18.
• Freitas, L. B. L., Pieta, M. A., & Tudge, J. R. H. (2011). Beyond politeness: The expression of gratitude in children and adolescents. Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica, 24(4), 757-764.
• Palhares, F., Rava, P. G. S., Hoefelmann, T. B., Pieta, M. A. M., & Freitas, L. B. L. (2011). Deve-se retribuir? Gratidão e dívida simbólica na infância [Should one return a favor? Gratitude and symbolic debt in childhood]. Estudos de Psicologia [Studies of Psychology], 16(1), 75–82.
• Freitas, L. B. L., Silveira, P. G., & Pieta, M. A. M. (2009). Sentimento de gratidão em crianças de 5 a 12 anos [The feeling of gratitude in 5- to 12-year-old children]. Psicologia em Estudo [Studying Psychology], 14(2), 243-250.
• Freitas, L. B. L., Silveira, P. G., & Pieta, M. A. M. (2009). Um estudo sobre o desenvolvimento da gratidão na infância [A study about the development of gratitude in childhood]. Revista Interamericana de Psicologia [Interamerican Journal of Psychology], 43(1), 22-29.
• Pieta, M. A. M., & Freitas, L. B. L. (2009). Sobre a gratidão [On gratitude]. Arquivos Brasileiros de Psicologia [Brazilian Archives of Psychology], 61, 100-108.