Designing Positive Psychology Taking Stock and Moving Forward 1st Edition by Kennon Sheldon, Todd Kashdan, Michael Steger 0195373588 9780195373585

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ISBN 10: 0195373588 

ISBN 13: 9780195373585

Author: Kennon M. Sheldon, Todd B. Kashdan, Michael F. Steger

Positive psychology exploded into public consciousness 10 years ago and has continued to capture attention around the world ever since. The movement promised to study positive human nature, using only the most rigorous scientific tools and theories. How well has this promise been fulfilled? This book evaluates the first decade of this fledgling field of study from the perspective of nearly every leading researcher in the field. Scholars in the areas of social, personality, clinical, biological, emotional, and applied psychology take stock of their fields, while bearing in mind the original manifesto and goals of the postive psychology movement. They provide honest, critical evaluations of the flaws and untapped potential of their fields of study. The contributors design the optimal future of positive psychology by addressing gaps, biases, and methodological limitations, and exploring exciting new questions.

Table of contents:

I: Introductory Perspectives

1. Positive Psychology: Where Did It Come From, Where Is It Going?

2. Challenges, Pitfalls, and Aspirations for Positive Psychology

II: Biological Perspectives
3. Positive Psychophysiology: The Body and Self-Regulation
4. Positive Psychological States and Biological Processes
5. The Primary Process Affects in Human Development, Happiness, and Thriving

III: Emotional Perspectives
6. Beyond Pleasure and Pain? Emotion Regulation and Positive Psychology
7. The Positive Psychology of Positive Emotions: An Avuncular View
8. The Future of Emotions Research within Positive Psychology

IV: Social-Cognitive Perspectives
9. The Role of Hypo-egoic Self-Processes in Optimal Functioning and Subjective Well-Being
10. Experiential Processing and the Integration of Bright and Dark Sides of the Human Psyche
11. A Task-Focused Mind Is a Happy and Productive Mind: A Processing Perspective
12. Finding Positive Value in Human Consciousness: Conscious Thought Serves Participation in Society and Culture

V: Personality Perspectives
13. Personality Traits and the Potential of Positive Psychology
14. Character and Personality: Connections between Positive Psychology and Personality Psychology
15. Personality Science and the Northern Tilt: As Positive as Possible Under the Circumstances
16. Why Gratitude Enhances Well-Being: What We Know, What We Need to Know

VI: Relationship Perspectives
17. The Positive Side of Close Relationships
18. Positive Relationship Science: A New Frontier for Positive Psychology?
19. Coaching and Positive Psychology

VII: Clinical Perspectives
20. The Dog Woman, Addie Bundren, and the Ninth Circle of Hell: Positive Psychology Should Be More Open to the Negative
21. Meaning and Growth within Positive Psychology: Toward a More Complete Understanding
22. Mindfulness and Positive Psychological Functioning

VIII: Organizational Perspectives
23. Positive Psychological Capital in the Workplace: Where We Are and Where We Need to Go
24. Organizational Applications of Positive Psychology: Taking Stock and a Research/Practice Roadmap for the Future

IX: Societal Perspectives
25. Place and Well-Being
26. Greater Happiness for a Greater Number: Is That Possible? If So, How?
27. Positive Psychology as a Force for Social Change

X: Summary Perspectives
28. What’s Positive about Positive Psychology? Reducing Value-Bias and Enhancing Integration within the Field
29. To Celebrate Positive Psychology and Extend Its Horizons
30. Are We There Yet? What Happened on the Way to the Demise of Positive Psychology
31. Positive Psychology in Historical and Philosophical Perspective: Predicting Its Future from the Past

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