Positive Psychology

Positive Psychology 

M Piper Bio/Background

Blurb from my website; personal and professional background

Authentic Happiness Site

Link to Seligman's "Authentic Happiness" site.
Includes great, FREE tests regarding happiness, optimism, Character Values

Positive Psych Article in my newsletter

My newsletter, "Get Off the Couch!", is available, free, at MarcusAPiper.com
This is a link to a Positive Psychology Article in my newsletter.

MPiper Blog post on "Flow"

Read about "Flow". Do you have times when you are totally engrossed in what you are doing? Time seems to fly. You are fully engaged in the activity and feel very content. You enjoy the activity for its own sake, not for some payoff at the end. This is an "optimal experience". Its a state called Flow.
Posted on "Get Off the Couch!" Blog

Affective Forecasting

AFFECTIVE FORECASTING...OR...THE BIG WOMBASSA: WHAT YOU THINK YOU'RE GOING TO GET, AND WHAT YOU DON'T GET, WHEN YOU GET WHAT YOU WANT by Dr. Daniel Gilbert

Dr. Edward Diener's site

Contributions of the Ed Diener Laboratory to
The Scientific Understanding of Well-Being

Ed Diener, Ph.D., Psychologist
Researcher on Subjective Well-Being

Ben Dean's "Coaching Towards Happiness" site

About the Coaching Toward Happiness eNewsletter...
Coaching Toward Happiness is a free monthly email newsletter. As a subscriber, you'll receive each month (or a little more often) a succinct article devoted to practical strategies for integrating Positive Psychology into your own life and into the lives of others.

In addition, we'll have periodic interviews--both in print and by teleconference--with leading scholars sharing the personal impact of their work on their lives. What have they learned? What strategies do they personally use? What areas do they still neglect? And we'll talk to leading practitioners about the impact that Positive Psychology has had on their work. We'll particularly look for those who have found it to have had a transformative impact.

We'll focus on areas that have been relatively neglected in our newsletter to date, for example, practical strategies for increasing perhaps the most powerful predictor of happiness--social support, as well as the role of values, the impact of physical health and exercise on happiness, and affective forecasting.

And while we're fascinated by relevant research, we'll never forget the importance of sharing practical, nuts-and-bolts strategies for enhancing happiness and meaning in your life, work, and in the lives of your clients and students.

And, yes, in response to many kind requests, we'll continue our series condensing the remaining 24 Character Strengths into succinct essays. We'll share resources and any breaking news we learn. And all of Ben's past AHC newsletter issues will be archived on our site.

Ben Dean's Interviews Archive

Listen to Archived Interviews with Positive Psychology leaders, innovators, proponents, and researchers
Robert Biswas-Diener
Chris Peterson
John Haidt's The Happiness Formula
Daniel Gilbert's Stumbling on Happiness

Flow: What's worth living for?

This page explains the basic idea of flow, and touches on some of the reasons it's a powerful concept. The page contains:

Flow, explained
More about flow
Flow and society
Flow and the future
Conclusion
Afterword

Quotes by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Author of books on "Flow", or optimal human experience.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, a Psychology professor, formerly head of the department at the University of Chicago, is noted for his work in the study of happiness, creativity, subjective well-being, and fun, but is best known for his having been the architect of the notion of "flow" and for his years of research and writing on the topic. He is the author of many books and over 120 articles or book chapters. He is one of the most widely cited psychologists today, in a variety of fields related to psychology and business.

Sonja Lyubomirsky

"The majority of my research career has been devoted to studying human happiness. Why is the scientific study of happiness important? In short, because most people believe happiness is meaningful, desirable, and an important, worthy goal, because happiness is one of the most salient and significant dimensions of human experience and emotional life, because happiness yields numerous rewards for the individual, and because it makes for a better, healthier, stronger society. Along these lines, my current research addresses three critical questions - 1) What makes people happy?; 2) Is happiness a good thing?; and 3) How can we make people happier still?"

SONJA LYUBOMIRSKY: PAPERS & PUBLICATIONS

Listing of papers (some downloadable) by SONJA LYUBOMIRSKY