Positive Psychology

Transhumanism and the Wisdom of Old Genes: Is Neurotechnology a Source of Future Happiness?

Technological progress seems to open ways for redesigning the human organism. This means that the affective system that is built into the brain by evolution...

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Diminishing Returns to Income Companionship - and Happiness

From philosophical and intuitive sources I find three goods that should serve as ultimate ends in assessing a high quality of life: subjective well-being human development and justice....

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How happy can you be? - Movie Review

Movie Review: How happy can you be?, Icarus Films, Brooklyn, NY, USA. DVD (2006), 52 minutes, US$390. www.icarusFilms.com

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Book Review: Average to A+: realising strengths in yourself and others by A. Linley

Alex Linley’s newest book, Average to A+, is the latest in a series of books on the increasingly popular psychological topic of strengths.  This is a review of his book by Robert Biswas-Diener published in the Journal of Positive Psychology.

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Increasing job satisfaction: coaching with evidence-based interventions

Positive psychology offers a number of tools that coaches can use with groups and individuals to raise job satisfaction and engagement....

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Profiling courage: Introduction to the special issue on courage

Profiling courage: Introduction to the special issue on courage

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Unpacking positive emotions: Investigating the seeds of human flourishing

This article is an editorial written by Barbara Fredrickson, PhD

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MasterClass: Coaching Toward the Positive with Richard Boyatzis - Part I

Thank you for joining us for our two-part MasterClass series, MasterClass: Coaching Toward the Positive with Richard Boyatzis featuring his groundbreaking work....

A dynamic approach to psychological strength development and intervention

Many practitioners working with clients from a strengths perspective largely rely on ad hoc interventions and employ a simplistic ‘identify and use’ approach....

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Video Coaching with Compassion can Light Up Human Thoughts

This two-minute video discusses how giving and receiving help light up the human brain and the recent work of professor Richard Boyatzis, PhD at Case Western Reserve University.

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