Positive Psychology Is Individual differences in resilience Character strengths, practices (daily) for better outcomes Flow (engagement, absorption) , maladaptive, creative, fulfilling, positive Self-acceptance, personal happiness Healthy positive affect [...]
A Brief (Recent) History Around 2011 Some high-profile fraud Multi-study paper on ESP in top journal Some attention to failed replication studies Longer history of 'gossip' 'False positive psychology' [...]
Today's Goals Mini Review: Emotions over time Wrap-up on affective forecasting Understand the components of subjective well-being Begin to understand the correlates and causes of subjective well-being Understand Ryff's [...]
Today’s Goals Mini review: Happiness Catch up on happy people Review history of ‘hedonic treadmill’ Understand current state of adaptation research Consider intentional happiness change Become familiar with exercises [...]
Today’s Goals Mini review: Happy people & change Consider a model of happiness change exercises Understand how money (income) is correlated with happiness Become familiar with the Gallup World [...]
Today’s Goals Mini review & catch up: Money & happiness Understand how religion is related to SWB Understand the ‘religion paradox’ Consider why religion (sometimes) predicts SWB Mini [...]
Today’s Goals Looking ahead (proposal, exam review) Mini-Review: Religion Become familiar with the VIA strengths & virtues Understand the background of the strengths Become familiar with assessment of and [...]
Today’s Goals Think about ‘the self’ Understand approaches to defining and measuring the ‘true self’ Understand when people are likely to feel authentic Explore links between true-self and meaning [...]
Today’s Goals Mini review: Self-compassion, self-esteem Consider cultural differences in the self (catch-up) Understand ability, interests, and drive, and how they combine to produce accomplishment Understand the cognitive, personality, [...]
Today’s Goals Mini-review: Accomplishment Catching up: Creativity Become familiar with the effects of nature exposure (cognitive, emotional, etc.) Understand the construct of ‘nature relatedness’ Become familiar with the correlates [...]
Today’s Goals Mini-review: Nature Catch up: Nature relatedness Understand how psychologists define resilience Become familiar with the MIDUS study Explore resilience findings & identify protective factors Mini-review: Nature [...]
Today’s Goals Mini-review: Resilience & nature relatedness Consider a few more negative events and resilient responses Understand the concept of post traumatic growth Unpack the Frazier et al. reading [...]
Today’s Goals Discuss projects & final papers Mini review: Post-trauma growth Consider classic approaches to helping behaviour Explore whether or when prosocial behaviour might be ‘automatic’ Mini-review: Post-Traumatic [...]
Today’s Goals Mini review: Prosocial behaviour Review the history of love research in psychology Discuss how psychologists and lay people define love Review the correlates of different approaches to [...]
Today's Goals Mini Review: Pro-social & Love Catch up: Love Consider the 'bank account' analogy of relationships Explore positive relationship behaviours o Gratitude, Capitalization, Forgiveness, etc. Note: some findings [...]
