positive-psychology

Research suggests that up to 40% of our happiness is shaped by our actions. Here's how positive psychology can help you cultivate more joy.

Personal Perspective: Reclaiming birthdays after years of grief, positive psychology can transform a day of loss into a celebration of life earned and lived.

More trips around the sun does not mean inevitable decline, new research suggests – and having a optimistic outlook can even bring improvements By most standards, Prof Velandai Srikanth is at the peak of his career. He is the director of the National Centre for Healthy Ageing; his decades of highly regarded research has led to work being published in leading scientific journals; and he has been a…

Complementary Medicine & Alternative Healthcare - Juniper Publishers Abstract In this brief article we discuss successful and authentic aging, emphasizing that rather than seeing aging as a drag we should embrace it. Through anecdotes that embed ideas, the authors present ways that we each are coming to terms with our own constantly changing physical appearance and capabilities and discuss so…

This paper investigates positive psychology as a new science and how positive character traits might be used in managing depression, anxiety, and trauma. It does this by reviewing the outcomes of 10 research studies targeted at strengthening character traits to improve mental health.

Here’s a pre-Thanksgiving question: How much good news can you pack into one psychology study? Lots of psychology research focuses on human difficulties: Why is it hard to learn and develop? Why do people struggle to connect? What happens when mental health decays? The field of positive psychology — as the name suggests — turns […]

This week I spoke with Megan McDonough CEO and co-founder along with Dr. Tal Ben-Shahar of the Wholebeing Institute. Megan is here in Australia working with Justin Robinson the director of the Institute of Positive Education at Geelong Grammar School. They’re promoting the Australian version of the Certificate in Whole-Person Positive Psychology (CiPP). Which by the… The post Three evidence-based…

As editors P. Alex Linley and Stephen Joseph note in their preface, positive psychology—the scientific study of what makes people feel happy and fulfilled—is a burgeoning discipline. At this crucial point in the field’s development, they want their book to be a definitive resource—not just for colleagues in academia, but for practitioners as well. Over 42 chapters, Positive Psychology in Practice…

The field of psychology has focused disproportionate on all that’s negative about human nature. Psychologists should devote more energy to studying the roots of human happiness, virtue, and well-being. Over the past six years, a growing number of psychologists have embraced this view of their field—a view often identified with the “positive psychology” movement and one of its chief proponents, fo…