positive psychology Tag

Positive Psychology News Daily - October 22, 2009 Relationships in Schools Matter - by John Yeager _ã–We must look for what is good in an organization before we move forward. Where the organization wants to be is based on higher moments of where they have been._㝠David Cooperrider...

23 October, 2009

Positive Psychology has been described as a discipline supported by three pillars: Positive Emotions (such as happiness) / Experiences, Positive Traits, and Positive Institutions. In recent lectures, Martin Seligman has expanded the construct to include Positive Relationships as one of the pillars of positive psychology. That is...

21 October, 2009

I'm not, and I know most positive psychologists are not, against constructive criticism and/or valid debates within and about the science of happiness and positive psychology. But let's be careful about how we interpret some writings and especially, what information/data we consider valid and reliable...

15 October, 2009

The _ã–positive psychology_㝠movement of the late 1990s was launched by Dr. Martin Seligman, a psychologist at The University of Pennsylvania. This movement grew out of the work of psychologists who went before Dr. Seligman, particularly psychiatrist Dr. George Vaillant who has conducted what has...

15 October, 2009

About a month ago I taught another, very successful Executive Certificate in Positive Psychology Course (click here).  I love teaching these courses partly because I'm passionate about spreading the principals of positive psychology as widely as possible but also because I tend to learn as...

12 October, 2009