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Are You Kidding?
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A basic premise of this is that the field of psychology is out of balance with too much focus on negative human behaviors.
What is positive psychology?
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One of the more noteworthy findings of survey researchers studying subjective well-being (or happiness) is that the connection between these two factors is very weak except for the very poor.
What is money and happiness?
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The emergence of positive psychology in the late 1990s had much to do with the sprit of the times, or zeitgeist, captured in this phrase.
What is the paradox of affluence?
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Subjective well-being (SWB) is defined and measured by these three elements.
What are life satisfaction, positive affect, and negative affect?
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The critical positivity ratio studied by Fredrickson and Losado is based on the ratio of these.
What is positive and negative emotions within a given time period?
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This individual had much to do with the belief that positive human behaviors have negative motivations underlying them.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
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Social psychologists have documented this as the most important contribution to well-being.
What is the relationships with others and personal happiness?
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True or False and WHY: Is positive psychology opposed to traditional psychology?
What is False? The concern is with what has not be studied not what has been studied.
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Harker and Kletner examined the type of smile women showed in their women’s college yearbook photographs and related smile-type to life outcomes 30 years later. What kind of smile predicted life outcomes?
What are Duchenne smiles? Specifically they were related to greater health, happiness and more stable and satisfying marriages
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According studies by Csikszentmihalyi, the flow experience is characterized by these three factors.
What are total absorption, loss of self, and exhilaration?
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This idea comes from research showing that negative information and behaviors command more attention and have greater impact than positive ones.
What is ”bad is stronger than the good”?
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To achieve its goal of restoring balance to the discipline of psychology, positive psychology needs further development in research and theory focused on these.
What are positive behaviors and descriptions of positive mental health?
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Positive psychologists argue that national statistics describing how we are doing as a society provide a misleading view of happiness and health because they do not do this.  
What is they do not measure happiness and positive mental health or functioning directly?
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According to research by Diener and his colleagues, happiness is built more on "this" of positive emotions than on "that".
What is frequency and intensity?
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Fredrickson and Losado examined the ratio of positive and negative emotional experiences in relation to individual and group functioning. They found evidence that a critical positivity ratio (Number) of these factors.
What is a ratio of 2.9 (or above) positive to negative emotions? This ratio was the dividing line between flourishing and languishing.
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Within psychology’s recent history, this branch of psychology has been one of the stronger voices for a more positive approach to the study of human behavior.
What is humanistic psychology?
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These are Seligman’s three-part description of happiness.
What are a pleasant life, an engaged life, and a meaningful life?
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The difference between hedonic and eudaimonic conceptions of happiness boils down to the difference between these.
What are pleasure/happiness and meaning/personal expressiveness?
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The focus of Fredricksons’ broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions is on these specific emotions.
What are discrete positive emotions such as joy, love, interest and contentment?
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According to Bryant and Verhoff, savoring refers to people’s ability to do this.
What is attend to, appreciate, and extend positive experiences?
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Researchers assessed positive and negative emotions by emotional coding of autobiographical sketches.
What is the Nun Study?
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Seligman’s three-part description of happiness describes a pleasant life, an engaged life, and a meaningful life. His analysis a meaningful life derives from this.
What is going beyond self-interest through involvements in something larger than the self, such as serving others?
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The most general pathways through which positive emotions may affect health involves enhancing these three "resources".
What is enhancing people’s physical, psychological and social resources?
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A major advance in the study of how emotions affect physical health is the ability of researchers to measure these.
What is measure specific immune system outputs such as T-cells, NK cells, and antibodies?
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According to Bryant and Verhoff, these three preconditions must be met for a savoring experience to occur.
What are a sense of here and now, setting aside self–esteem needs, and a mindful appreciation of the moment?