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Spotlight on Well-Being: We've Come a Long Way since Freud

Spotlight on Well-Being: We’ve Come a Long Way since Freud

Just as the world was preparing to enter the 20th century, Sigmund Freud was preparing to shock everyone with talk of unconscious drives focused on sex and aggression. He published Interpretation of ...
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/ / Clinical Psychology, Freud, Positive Psychology, Well-Being
Learning to be Optimistic

Learning to be Optimistic

As a human species, do you think we are more naturally pessimistic or more naturally optimistic? Interestingly, Seligman and others in the field of positive psychology argue that we are naturally more ...
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/ / Optimism, Positive Psychology
Self-Efficacy - How We Can, Not Why We Can't

Self-Efficacy – How We Can, Not Why We Can’t

The title of this blog post comes from a Ted Talk by Peter Sage. I'll link to the video below so you can watch it yourself. In the video, Sage talks about ...
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/ / Character Strengths, Positive Psychology, Self-Efficacy
Character Strengths and the Virtuous Life

Character Strengths and the Virtuous Life

The ultimate goal in positive psychology is to help individuals and communities thrive. We thrive by maximizing our character strengths in pursuit of well-being. Read my post on Well-Being and the Five ...
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/ / Character Strengths, Positive Psychology, Virtue
Grit - Passion and Perseverance

Grit – Passion and Perseverance

What makes someone successful? Is it intellect? Education? Physical health? Talent? Maybe luck? According to Dr. Angela Duckworth from the Positive Psychology Center at the University of Pennsylvania, it is none of ...
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/ / Accomplishment, Grit, Positive Psychology
Building Psychological Capital (Hope, Efficacy, Resilience, Optimism)

Building Psychological Capital (Hope, Efficacy, Resilience, Optimism)

You Can Bank On it Psychological capital in many ways is like a savings account for our well-being. Just as it is good to save money for a rainy day, it is ...
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/ / Hope, Optimism, Positive Psychology, Psychological Capital, Resilience, Self-Efficacy
The Real World Benefits of Expressing Gratitude

The Real World Benefits of Expressing Gratitude

Gratitude: As Old as Animal Kind Gratitude may be an evolutionary component of human development, passed down for thousands of years according to sociologist Georg Simmel (Greater Good Magazine, n.d.). While we ...
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/ / Gratitude, Positive Emotions, Positive Psychology
The Fading Affect Bias in Pursuit of the Pleasant Life

The Fading Affect Bias in Pursuit of the Pleasant Life

Fading Affect Bias (FAB) The Fading Affect Bias, or FAB for short, refers to the cognitive phenomenon supported by research showing that memories associated with negative emotions tend to fade faster than ...
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/ / Fading Affect Bias, Flow, Optimism, Positive Emotions, Positive Psychology
Brief History of Positive Psychology (Part 2)

Brief History of Positive Psychology (Part 2)

Continued From Part 1... But Wait, There is Good News Remember, Csikszentmihalyi found that teenagers can be unhappy and can see life through their suffering, but he also found an interesting exception ...
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/ / Character Strengths, Flow, Optimism, Positive Psychology, Resilience, Well-Being
Well-Being and the Five 'Happy' Lives

Well-Being and the Five ‘Happy’ Lives

Well-Being and The PERMA Model Seligman (2011) argues that well-being is enhanced through thriving in one or more pillars of well-being. His model, often referred to as the PERMA Model, consists of ...
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/ / Accomplishment, Happiness, Meaning, PERMA, Positive Emotions, Positive Psychology, Relationships, Well-Being