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positive psychology

Thinking and feeling

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Maybe it’s because I live in Nashville (that’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it!), but I keep finding great expressions of positive psychology principles in country music.  One recent example is Dierks Bentley’s What Was I Thinking.  The song feat

The Perils of Pollyanna

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That's the title of my April post over at Positive Psychology News Daily.

Positive Deviants in Love

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This is the beginning of an article in Friday's Wall Street Journal that is an example of how fields of science other than positive psychology are beginning to study positive deviants.  The article goes on to note that functional magnetic resonance imaging (fmri) scans revealed that the few couples they've scanned so far showed the same brain activity as those newly in love, plus activity that seems associated with long-term pair bonding.

Positive Emotions

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If you would, please go read this, then come back and go to the continuation of this post.

How'd you respond.  Yes or no?  Affirming or critiquing.  Bringing the emotion the story created in you on into your life, or pushing it out?

PsyCap - An Integrative Approach and a New Tool

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My book note on Psychological Capital by Luthans, Youssef, and Avolio is up over at Positive Psychology Daily News.

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