Table of Contents

VOLUME ONE: PHILOSOPHICAL AND CONCEPTUAL PERSPECTIVES
Shared Virtue: The Convergence of Valued Human Strengths across Culture and History - Katherine Dahlsgaard, Christopher Peterson and Martin Seligman
The Humanistic Psychology–Positive Psychology Divide: Contrasts in Philosophical Foundations - Alan Waterman
The Humanistic Psychology and Positive Psychology Connection: Implications for Psychotherapy - Stella Resnick, Arthur Warmoth and Ilene Serlin
Subjective Well-Being: Three Decades of Progress - Ed Diener, Eunkook Suh, Richard Lucas and Heidi Smith
Learned Helplessness in Humans: Critique and Reformulation - Lyn Abramson, Martin Seligman and John Teasdale
Influence of Extraversion and Neuroticism on Subjective Well-Being: Happy and Unhappy People - Paul Costa and Robert McCrae
Positive Psychology: Past, Present, and (Possible) Future - P. Alex Linley, Stephen Joseph, Susan Harrington and Alex Wood
Tracing the Size, Reach, Impact, and Breadth of Positive Psychology - Reuben Rusk and Lea Waters
Orientations to Happiness and Life Satisfaction: The Full Life versus the Empty Life - Christopher Peterson, Nansook Park and Martin Seligman
The Benefits of Frequent Positive Affect: Does Happiness Lead to Success? - Sonja Lyubomirsky, Laura King and Ed Diener
VOLUME TWO: CONSTRUCTS AND THEORIES
The Mental Health Continuum: From Languishing to Flourishing in Life - Corey Keyes
Origins and Functions of Positive and Negative Affect: A Control-Process View - Charles Carver and Michael Scheier
The Role of Positive Emotions in Positive Psychology: The Broaden-and-Build Theory of Positive Emotions - Barbara Fredrickson
Emotional Intelligence - Peter Salovey and John Mayer
Self-Determination Theory and the Facilitation of Intrinsic Motivation, Social Development, and Well-Being - Richard Ryan and Edward Deci
Goal Striving, Need Satisfaction, and Longitudinal Well-Being: The Self-Concordance Model - Kennon Sheldon and Andrew Elliot
Are There Universal Aspects in the Structure and Content of Human Values? - Shalom Schwartz
Possible Selves - Hazel Markus and Paula Nurius
Posttraumatic Growth: Conceptual Foundations and Empirical Evidence - Richard Tedeschi and Lawrence Calhoun
Optimal Experience in Work and Leisure - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Judith LeFevre
Strengths of Character and Well-Being - Nansook Park, Christopher Peterson and Martin Seligman
When Choice Is Demotivating: Can One Desire Too Much of a Good Thing? - Sheena Iyengar and Mark Lepper
Income and Happiness: Towards a Unified Theory - Richard Easterlin
Pursuing Happiness: The Architecture of Sustainable Change - Sonja Lyubomirsky, Kennon Sheldon and David Schkade
VOLUME THREE: MEASUREMENT AND ASSESSMENT
Happiness Is Everything, or Is It? Explorations on the Meaning of Psychological Well-Being - Carol Ryff
Development and Validation of Brief Measures of Positive and Negative Affect: The PANAS Scales - David Watson, Lee Anna Clark and Auke Tellegen
The Satisfaction with Life Scale - Ed Diener et al.
The Meaning in Life Questionnaire: Assessing the Presence of and Search for Meaning in Life - Michael Steger, Patricia Frazier, Shigehiro Oishi and Matthew Kaler
Distinguishing Optimism from Neuroticism (and Trait Anxiety, Self-Mastery, and Self-Esteem): A Reevaluation of the Life Orientation Test - Michael Scheier, Charles Carver and Michael Bridges
Assessing Coping Strategies: A Theoretically Based Approach - Charles Carver, Michael Scheier and Jagdish Kumari Weintraub
Emotional Style and Susceptibility to the Common Cold - Sheldon Cohen, William Doyle, Ronald Turner, Cuneyt Alper and David Skoner
Alterations in Brain and Immune Function Produced by Mindfulness Meditation - Richard Davidson et al.
Positive Emotions in Early Life and Longevity: Findings from the Nun Study - Deborah Danner, David Snowdon and Wallace Friesen
Happiness Is a Stochastic Phenomenon - David Lykken and Auke Tellegen
The Social Context of Well–Being - John Helliwell and Robert Putnam
Dynamic Spread of Happiness in a Large Social Network: Longitudinal Analysis of the Framingham Heart Study Social Network - James Fowler et al.
Risk, Resilience, and Recovery: Perspectives from the Kauai Longitudinal Study - Emmy Werner
Successful Aging - George Vaillant and Kenneth Mukamal
A Survey Method for Characterizing Daily Life Experience: The Day Reconstruction Method - Daniel Kahneman et al.
Post-Traumatic Growth and Life Threatening Physical Illness: A Systematic Review of the Qualitative Literature - Kate Hefferon, Madeleine Grealy and Nanette Mutrie
VOLUME FOUR: INTERVENTIONS AND ACTIVITIES
Development of a Program to Increase Personal Happiness - Michael Fordyce
Long-Term Effects of a Control-Relevant Intervention with the Institutionalized Aged - Judith Rodin and Ellen Langer
An Outpatient Program in Behavioral Medicine for Chronic Pain Patients Based on the Practice of Mindfulness Meditation: Theoretical Considerations and Preliminary Results - Jon Kabat-Zinn
Counting Blessings versus Burdens: An Experimental Investigation of Gratitude and Subjective Well-Being in Daily Life - Robert Emmons and Michael McCullough
How to Increase and Sustain Positive Emotion: The Effects of Expressing Gratitude and Visualizing Best Possible Selves - Kennon Sheldon and Sonja Lyubomirsky
The Health Benefits of Writing about Intensely Positive Experiences - Chad Burton and Laura King
Effects of Exercise Training on Older Patients with Major Depression - James Blumenthal et al.
Appreciative Inquiry in Organizational Life - David Cooperrider and Suresh Srivastva
What Do You Do When Things Go Right? The Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Benefits of Sharing Positive Events - Shelly Gable et al.
Enhancing Well-Being and Alleviating Depressive Symptoms with Positive Psychology Interventions: A Practice-Friendly Meta-Analysis - Nancy SinandSonja Lyubomirsky
Becoming Happier Takes Both a Will and a Proper Way: An Experimental Longitudinal Intervention to Boost Well-Being - Sonja Lyubomirsky et al.
VOLUME FIVE: POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY IN APPLIED SETTINGS
A Meta-Analytic Review of the Penn Resiliency Program’s Effect on Depressive Symptoms - Steven Brunwasser, Jane Gillham and Eric Kim
Intelligence Praise Can Undermine Motivation and Performance - Claudia Mueller and Carol Dweck
Toward a Psychology of Positive Youth Development - Reed Larson
Of Memes and Marriage: Toward a Positive Relationship Science - Frank Fincham and Steven Beach
Integrating Positive Psychology into Counseling: Why and (When Appropriate) How - Alex Harris, Carl Thoresen and Shane Lopez
Development and Characteristics of a Well-Being Enhancing Psychotherapeutic Strategy: Well-Being Therapy - Giovanni Fava and Chiara Ruini
Positive Psychology in Clinical Practice - Angela Lee Duckworth, Tracy Steen and Martin Seligman
The Impact of Life Coaching on Goal Attainment, Metacognition and Mental Health - Anthony Grant
Foundations of Positive Organizational Scholarship - Kim Cameron, Jane Dutton and Robert Quinn
The Need for and Meaning of Positive Organizational Behavior - Fred Luthans
Comprehensive Soldier Fitness: Building Resilience in a Challenging Institutional Context - Rhonda Cornum, Michael Matthews and Martin Seligman
Positive Health - Martin Seligman
VOLUME SIX: CRITIQUES, CONTROVERSIES, AND CURRENT ISSUES
Positive Psychology: History in the Remaking? - Dana Becker and Jeanne Marecek
The Negative Side of Positive Psychology - Barbara Held
Does the Positive Psychology Movement Have Legs? - Richard Lazarus
Positive Psychology in Cancer Care: Bad Science, Exaggerated Claims, and Unproven Medicine - James Coyne and Howard Tennen
The Complex Dynamics of Wishful Thinking: The Critical Positivity Ratio - Nicholas Brown, Alan Sokal and Harris Friedman
“Positive Psychology”: Some Plusses and Some Open Issues - Emory Cowen and Ryan Kilmer
Defensive Pessimism: Harnessing Anxiety as Motivation - Julie Norem and Nancy Cantor
Positive Psychology 2.0: Towards a Balanced Interactive Model of the Good Life - Paul Wong
On Being Positive: Concerns and Counterpoints - Stephen Fineman
Reconsidering Happiness: The Cost of Distinguishing between Hedonics and Eudaimonia - Todd Kashdan, Robert Biswar-Diener and Laura King
Beyond the Hedonic Treadmill: Revising the Adaptation Theory of Well-Being - Ed Diener, Richard Lucas and Christie Napa Scollon
Critical Positive Masculinity - Tim Lomas
Toward a Multicultural Positive Psychology: Indigenous Forgiveness and Hmong Culture - Steven Sandage, Peter Hill and Henry Vang
Beyond Positive Psychology? Toward a Contextual View of Psychological Processes and Well-Being - James McNulty and Frank Fincham
The Role of Power in Wellness, Oppression, and Liberation: The Promise of Psychopolitical Validity - Isaac Prilleltensky
The LIFE Model: A Conceptual Map for Applied Positive Psychology - Tim Lomas, Kate Hefferon and Itai Ivtzan

About the Author

Dr Tim Lomas, PhD, is a Psychology Research Scientist in the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and part of the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University. Tim’s main research focus is exploring cross-cultural perspectives on wellbeing, especially concepts and practices deemed ‘non-Western.’ Since 2013, Tim has published over 100 papers and 12 books relating to wellbeing, involving topics/approaches including linguistics, non-human intelligence, semiotics, art, emotional dialectics, balance/harmony, systems theory, social theory, politics, gender, and Buddhism. His latest book, entitled Happiness, was published in 2023 by MIT Press as part of their Essential Knowledge series. Dr. Kate Hefferon is a Chartered Research Psychologist, Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader of the Msc in Applied Positive Psychology at the University of East London. She is the author of several peer-reviewed papers, books and book chapters and has presented at conferences nationally and internationally on positive psychology. Her research interests include posttraumatic growth, resilience, physical activity and embodiment.