The Centre for Applied Positive Psychology promotes research into techniques for boosting personal contentment.
What positive psychology does is reverse the basic questions that have animated clinical psychology from the beginning.
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Over the last decade, researchers in Positive Psychology have discovered a number of behaviors that boost happiness.
The report authors told the Journal of Positive Psychology that the concept of miserable Mondays should be ditched.
Might Positive Psychology, since in retrospect it is one of those really really good ideas waiting to be developed, also have become influential and useful?
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You may be familiar with the field of positive psychology which was started by Dr. Martin Seligman, author of bestsellers on the topic like Authentic Happiness.
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All of this is good for the company and all is part of the larger push for improved employee satisfaction that is at the heart of positive psychology.
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Pushed to the brink by her own horrible boss, and armed with expertise in positive psychology in the workplace, McQuaid is leading a movement for National Boss Day on October 16.
At the beginning of his recent book Flourish, Martin Seligman, who is one of the key, if not the key, founder of positive psychology, tells the story of how it was started with essential help from Charles F.
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It is based on recent research into the psychology of flourishing (so called positive psychology), consumer behavior research, experiences and research about the diet industry and weight loss, my 25 years clinical experience as a psychologist and psychoanalyst, and well over a half-century of experience eating.
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Given America's shift into positive-psychology overdrive, a thoughtful critique of this solipsistic grasping is welcome.
Markets and economic behavior are largely based on psychology, and now we have several powerful ingredients for a temporary but positive shift in psychology.
Schramm clearly intended to tap on the brakes a little, but just as the positive feedback of investor psychology inflated the stock price on the upside, negative feedback exaggerated the negative effects on the downside.
Solis outlines the heuristics of social psychology that are key to building positive customer experiences today.
But my positive small-cap outlook for 2013 and beyond is driven more by valuation and company fundamentals than market psychology.
In psychology, Stockholm Syndrome is an apparently paradoxical psychological phenomenon in which hostages express empathy and have positive feelings towards their captors, sometimes to the point of defending them.
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