This is an undergraduate survey-level course on Positive Psychology. Positive Psychology is the scientific study of happiness, well-being, strengths, and positive social systems that make life most worth living. It is shifting the professionals’ paradigm away from its narrow-minded focus on pathology and mental illness to positive emotions, strengths, as well as positive institutions that nurture and facilitate these. It focuses on various aspects of the human conditions that lead to fulfillment and flourishing. It tries to address critical questions such as how to live a meaningful and fulfilling life, how to identify and cultivate what is best within people, and how to enhance people’s experiences of love, work, and play. This field is devoted to both basic and applied research on the states of optimal human functioning and fulfillment, and the facilitation and promotion of well-being. The most central themes of Positive Psychology include: happiness, hope, creativity and wisdom, character strengths and virtues, meaning, compassion, positive emotions and flow, fulfillment, resilience, as well as the social institutions that enable these (e.g., friendship, love, education, and religion).
This book discovers the latest thinking on the topics of happiness, flow, optimism, motivation, character strengths and love, and discusses how to apply it to your life. Boniwell presents an engaging overview of the science of optimal functioning and well-being, which combines real readability with a broad academic base applied to day-to-day life. The book discusses many successes and discoveries, but also controversies within the field. This third edition is updated and enhanced with new material on how to: change your mindset; practice mindfulness; develop better resilience; enhance your well-being at work; adopt positive leadership.
This book maps the key positive psychology interventions available and discusses their merits with an emphasis on practice and evaluation. Featuring evidence and thinking on the topics of happiness, flow, optimism, motivation and more, the book discovers how to increase happiness levels, what obstacles to flourishing affect our day-to-day lives and how to apply positive psychology to diverse professional disciplines. This second edition features chapter summaries, experiments boxes, personal development exercises, review questions, suggested resources, time out boxes, think about it boxes, measurement tools, mock essay questions, further relection topics, links to media materials, and end of chapter quizzes.
This book examines how positive psychology applies to stressors and health within such traditional research areas as developmental, clinical, personality, motivational, social, and behavioral psychology. Furthermore, the book offers perspectives on positive emotional states, research and theory on positive traits, coverage of positive institutions, and a look at the future of positive psychology. This third edition, reflects significant growth in field with hundreds of new references and expanded content on topics including mindfulness, money and subjective well-being, and romantic love. It also features new research on emotional intelligence, positive character strengths, emotional regulation, LGBT issues, gratitude, compassion, organizational issues, and positive psychology through the lifespan.
Written from a scientific perspective and thoroughly grounded in research, this book covers major topics of concern to the field of positive psychology- positive experiences such as pleasure and flow; positive traits such as character strengths, values, and talents; and the social institutions that enable these such as friendship, love, education, and religion. every chapter contains exercises that illustrate positive psychology and offers articles and books for further reading as well as a listing of films, websites, and popular songs that embody chapter themes or might provide the basis of research papers.
This book sparked a coast-to-coast debate on the nature of real happiness. According to esteemed psychologist and bestselling author Martin Seligman, happiness is not the result of good genes or luck. Real, lasting happiness comes from focusing on one's personal strengths rather than weaknesses--and working with them to improve all aspects of one's life. Using practical exercises, brief tests, and a dynamic website program, Seligman shows readers how to identify their highest virtues and use them in ways they haven't yet considered. Accessible and proven, Authentic Happiness is the most powerful work of popular psychology in years.
This book draws on more than twenty years of clinical research to show you how to overcome depression, boost your immune system, and make yourself happier. Offering many simple techniques anyone can practice, Dr. Seligman explains how to break an "I-give-up" habit, develop a more constructive explanatory style for interpreting your behavior, and experience the benefits of a more positive interior dialogue. With generous additional advice on how to encourage optimistic behavior at school, at work and in children, the skills you will read about here can increase the duration and intensity of your positive emotions.
In this startling study of human emotion, Dacher Keltner investigates an unanswered question of human evolution: If humans are hardwired to lead lives that are "nasty, brutish, and short," why have we evolved with positive emotions like gratitude, amusement, awe, and compassion that promote ethical action and cooperative societies? Illustrated with more than fifty photographs of human emotions, the book takes us on a journey through scientific discovery, personal narrative, and Eastern philosophy. Positive emotions, Keltner finds, lie at the core of human nature and shape our everyday behavior -- and they just may be the key to understanding how we can live our lives better.
This book reveals how to find opportunity in life's thorniest moments. Lyubomirsky argues that we have been given false promises--myths that assure us that lifelong happiness will be attained once we hit the culturally confirmed markers of adult success. This black-and-white vision of happiness works to discourage us from recognizing the upside of any negative and limits our potential for personal growth. A corrective course on happiness and a call to regard life's twists and turns with a more open mind, the book shares practical lessons that prove we are more adaptable than we think we are.
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