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| | Happy Days - positive psychology movement Psychology Today - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15) |
 | | It was for good reason that Seligman, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, related this innocent exchange to hundreds of colleagues from a podium in Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1999. |
 | | "There is a misguided emphasis in psychology on finding the problem and correcting it." Seligman mesmerized a professional audience, even bringing tears to some eyes, as he put forth a new school of psychology that seeks to understand and build human strengths. |
 | | 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. |
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