Preface1: What is Positive Psychology?2: Learning about Positive Psychology: Not a Spectator Sport3: Pleasure and Positive Experience4: Happiness5: Positive Thinking6: Character Strengths7: Values8: Interests, Abilities, and Accomplishments9: Wellness10: Positive Interpersonal Relationships11: Enabling Institutions12: The Future of Positive PsychologyReferencesIndex of NamesSubject Index
Christopher Peterson has been at the University of Michigan since
1986. He is Professor of Psychology, the former director of
clinical training, and an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, awarded in
recognition of his accomplishments as an undergraduate instructor.
Peterson is a member of the Positive Psychology Steering Committee,
a consulting editor of the Journal of Positive Psychology, and a
Templeton Senior Fellow at the University of
Pennsylvania's Positive Psychology Center. He took the lead in
creating the Values in Action (VIA) Classification of Strengths,
the most ambitious research project to date explicitly undertaken
from a positive psychology perspective.
Co-author of Character Strengths and Virtues (OUP 2004), Peterson
is among the world's 100 most-frequently cited psychologists during
the past 20 years and has long-standing research interests in
optimism, health, character, and well-being.
""Chris Peterson, one of the founding fathers of Positive
Psychology, has written a wonderfully engaging and deeply
stimulating introduction to this swiftly growing field.
Intellectual history is interwoven with data, research findings
with backstage gossip, to produce a delightful classic." -- Mihaly
Csikszentmihalyi, Director, Quality of Life Research Center and
C.S. and D.J. Davidson Professor, Peter F. Drucker School of
Management, Claremont Graduate University"
""This excellent text gives readers a clear and interesting
introduction to the field of positive psychology. Students will
find the book easy to read, yet informative, and others can read
the book because it covers fascinating material that is relevant to
living a successful life." --Ed Diener, Alumni Distinguished
Professor of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
and Editor, Perspectives on Psychological Science, and Journal of
Happiness Studies"
""This is the definitive textbook in Positive Psychology. But more
than that, it may be the single best textbook on any subject that I
have ever read. It's fun to read and it's authoritative-written as
it is by one of the main investigators in the field. I can't
remember reading a textbook before that both made me laugh out loud
and brought tears to my eyes." --Martin E.P. Seligman, Fox
Leadership Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, and
Director, Positive Psychology Center"
""Peterson offers his readers a marvelous blend of lucidity,
originality, humor, kindness and scholarship. This is a book that
should entice many thousands of readers into a lifetime of interest
in psychology." --George Vaillant, Senior Physician at Brigham and
Women's Hospital and Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical
School"
""Peterson offers his readers a marvelous blend of lucidity,
originality, humor, kindness and scholarship. This is a book that
should entice many thousands of readers into a lifetime of interest
in psychology." --George Vaillant, Senior Physician at Brigham and
Women's Hospital and Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical
School"
"The book is entertaining and accessible. It constitutes a valuable
resource for introducing positive psychology to advanced
undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as anyone
interested in the subject." - Toni Brennan, Psychology Learning and
Teaching, August 2007
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