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A notable accomplishment of the positive psychology movement in its first decade has been its success in increasing the amount of attention given to its theories and research findings. University of Pennsylvania psychologist Martin Seligman should be singled out for having ignited the recent explosion ...
I’ve wondered, and recently discovered, an answer in the 2015 data from the annual UCLA/Higher Education Research Institute American Freshman survey (of 141,189 entering full-time students at a cross-section of U.S. colleges and universities). The news is mixed: Most gay/lesbian/bisexual ...
Angela Lee Duckworth, a University of Pennsylvania psychology prof, studies “grit” which she defines as “perseverance and passion for long-term goals“. In this18 minute-long TED talktitled, “True Grit: Can perseverance be taught?” she summarizes her research without really answering the que...
all exist within one person. Drawing on the research of the psychiatrist George Ainslie, we can make sense of the interaction of these selves by plotting their relative strengths over time, starting with one (the cake eater) being weaker than the other (the dieter). For most of the day,...
Midlife or middle age is that transitional period of life between young adulthood and old age. Middle-aged people often undergo significant changes in their relationships, jobs, and health and their appearance.
The point of summarizing your research is to present it to others so that they understand what you are saying. One way to achieve this outcome is simply to write as you speak. When you speak to others, you are trying to get them to understand something. This same goal is tr...
Why do you care about people's jobs and, and doing applied research?” And coming to a business school has obviously changed that. I think there's an expectation that we're gonna do practical work. Uh, that was one of the big points of inspiration that I took from your work,...
If I think I see a path to curing cancer that is certain to succeed, my cancer-research modules ought to get more attention than my calorie-acquiring modules. I’m pretty sure that’s what would happen if I had good evidence that I’m about to cure cancer. But a more likely situation...
Although many articles and books on flow have been written for the specialist, this is the first time that the research on optimal experience is being presented to the general reader and its implications for individual lives discussed. But what follows is not going to be a “how-to” book....