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Articles on Positive psychology
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Children’s perspectives on math develop at a very young age and have longstanding effects, so it matters that families and teachers promote positive engagement with math skills.
Are you an extrovert or an introvert? From personality to emotional maturity, individual differences matter when it comes to happiness.
Positive education pairs the traditional focus of schools on academic achievement with positive psychology interventions to support student wellbeing.
How simple positive psychology methods combined with traditional therapy can make all the difference.
Being happy involves not shying away from pain, misery or distress.
Final year is stressful enough – without having to run 26 miles.
A happier, healthier work life is easy to achieve.
No longer dismissed as an undesirable negative trait to be avoided, humor is having a heyday among experimental psychologists.
The positive psychology movement led to hundreds of studies dedicated to improving human happiness. So why has nothing changed?
Psychology ought to go further than just restoring equilibrium. It should help us to flourish.
A philosophy based on giving of ourselves to others may help us live more meaningful and fulfilling lives, while helping to bridge the extremes of our emotions and beliefs.
The weather supplies many metaphors for our changeable minds. Moods can brighten and darken, dispositions can be sunny, futures can be under a cloud and relationships can be stormy. Like the weather, our…
Of all the cultural beliefs about health and illness that saturate the developed world, there is none so pervasive and deeply held as the idea that you can “battle” an illness by sheer force of will. We…
Perhaps because the word positive automatically brings to mind the insufferable yellow smiley face, the field of positive psychology is struggling to get the respect that it deserves. Two articles in the…
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Senior Lecturer in Psychological Interventions, University of Central Lancashire
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Professor of Coaching and Positive Psychology, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences
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Professor of Cognitive Psychology, Grinnell College
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Professor of Psychology, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, University of Canberra
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Senior research fellow, Edith Cowan University
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Associate Professor of Management, The University of Melbourne
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Cornelia H. Dudley Professor of Psychology, Knox College
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Postdoctoral research assistant at the Welsh Institute of Physical Activity, Health & Sport (WIPAHS), Swansea University
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PhD Student in Health and Well-being, Bangor University
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Associate Professor, Centre for Positive Psychology, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer in Positive Psychology, University of East London
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Senior Lecturer, Centre for Positive Health Sciences, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences
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Senior Lecturer, Psychology, Southern Cross University
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Associate professor of Management, The University of Melbourne
