Positive psychologists on positive psychology: Todd Kashdan

Positive psychologists on positive constructs.

REF: Lyubomirsky, S. (in press). Positive psychologists on positive constructs. [Comment on McNulty and Fincham's " Beyond positive psychology? Toward a contextual view of psychological processes and well-being " ]. American Psychologist.

POSITIVE INTERVENTIONS Running Head: Positive Interventions Positive Interventions: Past, Present, and Future To appear in “Bridging Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Positive Psychology: A Practitioners’s Guide to a Unifying Framework” Editors: Todd Kashdan and Joseph Ciarrochi

As positive intervention researchers, we are often approached by proponents of ACT, and the ensuing conversation is freuqently the same. The questioner says, " I have always wondered what the difference is between a positive intervention and ACT. " Obscured within this polite statement are the questions they really want to ask: is there anything new about positive interventions, or are we " sel...

Health Psychology Positive Emotion Word Use and Longevity in Famous Deceased Psychologists

Positive psychology. An introduction.

A science of positive subjective experience, positive individual traits, and positive institutions promises to improve quality of life and prevent the pathologies that arise when life is barren and meaningless. The exclusive focus on pathology that has dominated so much of our discipline results in a model of the human being lacking the positive features that make life worth living. Hope, wisdo...

Positive Psychology and Spirituality

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com in some cases. The timeline of psychology graciously marks these theoretical revelations as these theorists devoted their lives to the study of human behavior. Each of these theorists had their own beliefs concerning the behavior of our species, including the why, when, how, and under what circumstances gives rise to a particular behavior. Because o...