There's an overwhelming amount of evidence that gratitude is inversely correlated with depression, and a good amount that shows it to be useful as an interventi

There's an overwhelming amount of evidence that gratitude is inversely correlated with depression, and a good amount that shows it to be useful as an intervention as well. Even the article that you provided as evidence to the contrary found positive effects, just not dramatically higher than placebo. For example, here are the first couple pages of results I got for gratitude studies. Every single one found a positive affect. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1359105315572455 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/135910531557245... https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01443410903493934 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0144341090349393... https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10902-014-9542-3 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10902-014-9542-3 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/spanish-journal-of-psychology/article/effects-of-counting-blessings-on-subjective-wellbeing-a-gratitude-intervention-in-a-spanish-sample/33A5D1DD01AD62CAE7B4E296A9C9EFC4 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/spanish-journal-of-p... https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0092656607001286 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00926... https://synapse.koreamed.org/search.php?where=aview&id=10.12934/jkpmhn.2015.24.2.136&code=0199JKAPMHN&vmode=FULL https://synapse.koreamed.org/search.php?where=aview&id=10.12... https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0191886915004614 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01918... https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15298868.2015.1095794 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15298868.2015.10... https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2016-51687-001 https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2016-51687-001 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/sjop.12252 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/sjop.12252