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	Positive Psychology Center
		Positive Psychology is the scientific study of the strengths and virtues that enable individuals and communities to thrive.
		Understanding positive emotions entails the study of contentment with the past, happiness in the present, and hope for the future.
		Understanding positive institutions entails the study of the strengths that foster better communities, such as justice, responsibility, civility, parenting, nurturance, work ethic, leadership, teamwork, purpose, and tolerance.
	www.ppc.sas.upenn.edu (197 words)

	Positive Psychology Chapter
		The aim of Positive Psychology is to catalyze a change in psychology from a preoccupation only with repairing the worst things in life to also building the best qualities in life.
		The field of Positive Psychology at the subjective level is about positive subjective experience: well being and satisfaction (past), and flow, joy, the sensual pleasures, and happiness (present), and constructive cognitions about the future-optimism, hope, and faith.
		Psychology is not just the study of disease, weakness, and damage; it also is the study of strength and virtue.
	www.ppc.sas.upenn.edu /ppsnyderchapter.htm (3804 words)

	Contributions of Humanistic Psychology to Positive Psychology by Arthur Warmoth, Stella Resnick, and Ilene Serlin
		Humanistic psychology is both holistic and descriptive; it does not understand by analyzing something into parts, but instead focuses on the whole aspect of a phenomenon, all levels of body, speech and mind, the phenomenon in context to its surroundings and its history.
		Positive psychology may discover that its utopian pursuit of the ideal forms of social arrangements such as families, productive work, and political institution do not have universal answers, but only particular answers in particular communities with specific historical and cultural identities and traditions.
		Positive psychology's call for rigor and operationalizability of the variables is a wise challenge for humanistic psychologists.
	www.westga.edu /~psydept/os2/papers/serlin2.htm (5011 words)

	Positive psychology
		Positive psychology is intended to bring attention back to the pursuit of happiness and the nurturing of genius and talent.
		Positive psychology takes seriously the bright hope that if you find yourself stuck in the parking lot of life, with few and only ephemeral pleasures, with minimal gratifications, and without meaning, there is a road out.
		Positive psychology may provide an answer, both by explaining why people are turning to fundamentalist religions (to create meaning in their lives) and also by providing some alternative ways to create meaning in our lives.
	www.aphroweb.net /papers/positive-psych.htm (4808 words)

	Positive Psychology & Change (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Positive psychology is part of a noble, ancient view that human happiness is more than hedonism, i.e.
		So positive psychology is a mainstream idea already, and it's an important avenue being explored in the long search for "the best of all possible worlds".
		Positive psychologists have embarked on an ambitious and wide-ranging programme, apparently aimed at increasing the sum of human happiness.
	www.taylorclarke.co.uk /positivepsychology.htm (779 words)

	Amazon.de: Positive Psychology in Practice: English Books: P. A. Linley,Stephen Joseph (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		From the Foreword: "This volume is the cutting edge of positive psychology and the emblem of its future." - Martin E. Seligman, Ph.D., Fox Leadership Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, and author of "Authentic Happiness".
		Positive psychology is an exciting new orientation in the field, going beyond psychology's traditional focus on illness and pathology to look at areas like well-being and fulfilment.
		A group of major international contributors covers: the applied positive psychology perspective; historical and philosophical foundations; values and choices in pursuit of the good life; lifestyle practices for health and well-being; methods and processes for teaching and learning; and positive psychology at work.
	www.amazon.de /Positive-Psychology-Practice-P-Linley/dp/0471459062 (410 words)

	POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY by Martin Seligman
		Positive psychology is a new and rapidly expanding field focused on the empirical study of human flourishing.
		Positive psychology was launched in 1998 by Martin Seligman during his term as president of the American Psychological Association.
		First, positive psychology’s definition of character is a rich one that, while independent of particular philosophical or religious creeds, is not inimical to them.
	www.lifeskillstraining.org /seligman.htm (1578 words)

	The 2004 Positive Psychology Summit - Ayn Rand Admirers at The Atlasphere
		The 2004 Positive Psychology Summit - Ayn Rand Admirers at The Atlasphere
		Positive psychology is a variant of humanistic psychology.
		Overall, the positive psychology movement offers much to those who wish to deepen their understanding of self-esteem and of what it depends on, or to fill in the connections between the morality people live by and its impact on their well-being.
	www.theatlasphere.com /columns/040901-campbell-positivepsych.php (1095 words)

	NoodleFood: Positive Psychology Conference
		Understanding positive emotions entails the study of contentment with the past, happiness in the present, and hope for the future.
		Understanding positive institutions entails the study of the strengths that foster better communities, such as justice, responsibility, civility, parenting, nurturance, work ethic, leadership, teamwork, purpose, and tolerance.
		Positive psychology also suffers from the same substitution of statistics for rational inquiry as in psychology generally.
	www.dianahsieh.com /blog/2005/08/positive-psychology-conference.html (578 words)

	Martin Seligman on Optimism and Positive Psychology -- EQ TODAY
		Psychology is much larger than a corner of the health care system.
		The second pillar is positive individual traits or the traits of character that enable one to have a good life in the Aristotelian sense, not in the California sense; traits such as intimacy, vocation, wisdom, integrity, aesthetic sense, spirituality, future mindedness.
		The third pillar is positive institutions, the kinds of communities, families, schools, and nations that bring out the best in positive character and bring out the positive subjective experience.
	www.eqtoday.com /optimism/seligman.html (1549 words)

	Positive psychology and adolescent mental health: false promise or true breakthrough? Adolescence - Find Articles
		The promise of positive psychology for American adolescents is apparent to anyone who has had contact with a cross-section of these youth.
		Positive psychology promises to get adolescents' internal fires lit, to help them develop the complex skills and dispositions necessary to take charge of their lives, to become socially competent, compassionate and psychologically vigorous adults.
		Thus, the efforts of positive psychology to evolve all will be done separately and simultaneously, rather than systematically and in concert.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2248/is_154_39/ai_n6364175 (854 words)

	Positive psychology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		A term coined by psychologist Martin E.P. Seligman, and a movement in psychology which emphasizes what is right with people rather than what is wrong with them.
		Positive psychology is an attempt to redress the balance, to encourage psychologists to try to contribute to positive aspects of life, not just do something about negative things.
		An important feature of Positive Psychology is its rejection of moral relativism.
	www.guajara.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/p/po/positive_psychology.html (204 words)

	Science & Theology News - Fredrickson Receives Positive Psychology Prize (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Fredrickson was the unanimous choice for the John Marks Templeton Positive Psychology Prize first place award of $100,000 for her work in creating a new theory explaining the benefits of positive emotions.
		The Templeton Positive Psychology Prize is intended to encourage top mid-career scientists to devote their work toward what program director Dr. Martin E. Seligman has called a better understanding of "the best things in life." This includes goal-focused living, self-control, character-building, future-mindedness, optimism, persistence, wisdom, work-ethic, thrift, courage, and moral identity.
		She is also co-editing a book on the psychology of human strengths that will provide a critical examination of the prospects for positive psychology across different areas of psychological research.
	www.stnews.org /News-2383.htm (1010 words)

	Science & Theology News - A positive first: master’s program in positive psychology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Officially titled the master of applied positive psychology, this program is intended to augment students’ professional degrees by inviting them to learn the history of positive psychology and join the movement.
		Pawelski is concerned both with educating his students to take positive psychology back to their professions as well as with its specific effects on education itself.
		Positive emotions toward the past include gratitude and forgiveness, while positive emotions toward the future are those of hope and optimism.
	www.stnews.org /articles.php?article_id=1009 (1771 words)

	The Emergence of Positive Psychology: The Building of a Field of Dreams
		Upcoming events include the Positive Psychology Summit 2000: Building a Positive Human Future to be held in October in Washington, DC and the 2001 Positive Psychology Summer Institute.
		A positive psychology book series will be published by APA in upcoming years, and The Handbook of Positive Psychology will be published by Oxford in 2001.
		I propose that positive psychology bench science is already being translated into practice and that therapists and their clients value the shift in focus from a decrease in pathology to an increase in pre-existing strengths and a discovery of hidden talents.
	www.apa.org /apags/profdev/pospsyc.html (673 words)

	Positive psychology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Positive psychology is the scientific study of optimal human functioning.
		Notwithstanding numerous cautions and caveats, this suggestion of universality hints that in addition to trying to broaden the scope of psychological research to include mental wellness, the leaders of the positive psychology movement are challenging moral relativism and suggesting that virtue has both a biological and a cultural basis.
		Positive Psychology and the Buddhist Path of Compassion by Lorne Ladner Ph.D
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Positive_psychology (702 words)

	:: Authentic Happiness :: Using the new Positive Psychology
		and Â founder of Positive Psychology, a new branch of psychology which focuses on the empirical study of such things as positive emotions, strengths-based character, and healthy institutions.
		Positive psychology interventions can also lastingly decrease depression symptoms.
		As quoted in the article, âPositive interventions can supplement traditional interventions that relieve suffering and may someday be the practical legacy of positive psychology.â Click here to read article.
	www.authentichappiness.sas.upenn.edu (511 words)

	Psychology Today: The Glee Club
		Positive psychology focuses on cultivating personality strengths and honing an optimistic approach to life rather than on cataloging human frailty and disease, which Seligman says has too long been the focus of psychology.
		The positive psychology movement is an example of what Held calls the "tyranny of the positive attitude," a trend she says is pervasive in the U.S. Indeed, there is a push in some public and private sectors to show the benefits of being optimistic.
		Julie Norem, a professor of psychology at Wellesley College in Massachusetts and author of The Positive Power of Negative Thinking, says that 20 years of research have taught her that pessimists are generally as successful in life as optimists, though their tactics are far different.
	www.psychologytoday.com /rss/pto-20040107-000006.html (2178 words)

	Psychology Today: Happy Days
		Although positive psychology is still in its infancy, Seligman projects that the movement's research will yield methods of making exercise less tedious, work more rewarding, relationships more enjoyable -- in short, making what is good in life even better.
		The researchers found that focusing on positive stimuli -- in this case, the animal and the ocean -- was powerful enough to return the participants to their normal level of cardiovascular function.
		Haidt, who was studying human morality when he first heard of positive psychology a few years ago, believes that human nature's virtuous motives have not been sufficiently appreciated.
	www.psychologytoday.com /articles/pto-20000501-000015.html (2220 words)

	Positive Psychology
		Seligman is a Professor of Psychology at Penn, and former president of the American Psychological Association.
		Positive Psychology is not totally new, of course.
		But what is new about Positive Psychology is the scope of the initiative and the breadth of rigorous research taking place.
	www.petermclaughlin.com /Press/FreeArticles/IntroPosPsy.htm (591 words)

	positive psychology resources
		"As positive psychology moves from the margins to the mainstream, millions may embrace the remarkable idea that it is not only in society's interest to be altruistic, optimistic, and forgiving but in your own.
		"The field of Positive Psychology at the subjective level is about positive subjective experience: well being and satisfaction (past), and flow, joy, the sensual pleasures, and happiness (present), and constructive cognitions about the future-optimism, hope, and faith.
		Health Psychology "a scholarly journal devoted to furthering an understanding of scientific relationships between behavioral principles on the one hand and physical health and illness on the other.
	talentdevelop.com /pospsych-r.html (1981 words)

	Positive Psychology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The emerging topic of positive psychology is the focus of an evening of information at The Evergreen State College.
		Students in the Positive Psychology program invite members of the community to view videos they have created and to hear remarks by noted psychologist Jonathon Brown, Ph.D. The event takes place on Wednesday, March 10 in the college's Longhouse from 6:30 to 9 p.m., and is free and open to the public.
		"While dysfunction and mental illness are still a focus of much of psychology, there is a important movement among some in the field to address the 'social science' of happiness." Hurst's program is designed to assist students in understanding and building the elements of "positivity" in their own lives.
	www.evergreen.edu /news/releases/mar04/psychology.htm (375 words)

	The Le Van Company-Positive Psychology
		Positive emotions— are win-win, motivating us to use our strengths enhance, create and build.
		Positive emotions can be stored as "psychological capital" and called upon later when needed.
		Seligman proposes positive psychology interventions for reducing pessimism among lawyers and for increasing decision latitude in law firms.
	www.levanco.com /readings/positive_psych.html (1041 words)

	Taylor & Francis Journals: Welcome
		Positive psychology is about scientifically informed perspectives on what makes life worth living.
		The Journal aims to bring together work in positive psychology undertaken by researchers across different subdisciplines within psychology (e.g., social, personality, clinical, developmental, health, organizational), as well as across other social and behavioral disciplines (e.g., sociology, family studies, anthropology, neuroscience, philosophy, economics, medicine, organizational sciences).
		Special emphasis is placed on new theoretical and methodological approaches that advance both the science and practice of positive psychology.
	www.tandf.co.uk /journals/titles/17439760.asp (335 words)

	Teaching Positive Psychology - Psi Chi
		All students told stories about their most positive traits and the class reacted to each story: Saving the life of a dog in Greece, adventuring alone through Budapest, a daughter finally getting to know her mother's dark secret, coming back from deep depression.
		Barbara Fredrickson, one of the leading young positive psychologists, has argued that the evolutionary function of positive affect is to broaden and build cognitive and social resources.
		Positive Psychology was a course that seemed to grab all of the young burgeoning psychologists in the room by their throats and say 'Hey!
	www.psichi.org /pubs/articles/article_96.asp (1044 words)

	Positive Psychology and the Buddhist Path of Compassion
		There seem to be a variety of reasons for this historical neglect of positive psychology in the West.
		Also, psychologists have tended to be insecure in the scientific community where the "hard sciences" receive more respect than psychology does; for example, it's not lost on psychologists that Nobel prizes are given to physicists and chemists but not to those who study the psyche.
		Until psychology defines an emotion, it is extremely difficult to measure or study it.
	buddhanet.net /compassion.htm (1375 words)

	College of General Studies \| Master of Applied Positive Psychology
		Seligman is the founder of Positive Psychology, a new branch of psychology that focuses on the empirical study of such things as positive emotions, strengths-based character, and healthy institutions.
		The primary focus of this degree is to train students in the history, theory, and basic research methods of Positive Psychology and to help them apply these aspects of Positive Psychology in their particular professional settings.
		The MAPP program is a rigorous course of study, intended for students with a serious interest in applying the principles and tools of Positive Psychology to their professional lives.
	www.sas.upenn.edu /CGS/graduate/mapp (311 words)

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