Psychology · History & Schools of Psychology

Positive Psychology

A topic within History & Schools of Psychology, itself one of 9 topics in that field and part of Psychology.

Reading on Positive Psychology

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Paper2000

Positive Psychology: An Introduction

Martin E. P. Seligman & Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Argues psychology has spent a century studying what goes wrong with people and almost nothing studying what makes life worth living, and calls for a science of positive subjective experience, positive traits, and positive institutions to correct the balance.

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Psychology · History & Schools of Psychology

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Paper2001

The Role of Positive Emotions in Positive Psychology: The Broaden-and-Build Theory of Positive Emotions

Barbara L. Fredrickson

Proposes the broaden-and-build theory: positive emotions widen a person's momentary thought-action repertoire and, over time, build lasting physical, social and psychological resources, unlike negative emotions' narrow fight-or-flight response.

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Reading on Positive Psychology

Positive Psychology: An Introduction

The Role of Positive Emotions in Positive Psychology: The Broaden-and-Build Theory of Positive Emotions

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