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A psychology of human strengths : fundamental questions and future directions for a positive psychology /

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In A Psychology of Human Strengths: Fundamental Questions and Future Directions for a Positive Psychology, leading scholars of contemporary psychology set a research agenda for the scientific study of human strengths. Aspinwall and Staudinger feature contributors who bring both supportive and challe...

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Corporate Author: American Psychological Association
Other Authors: Aspinwall, Lisa G., Staudinger, Ursula M.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, [2003]
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Psychology.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • A psychology of human strengths : some central issues of an emerging field / Lisa G. Aspinwall and Ursula M. Staudinger
  • Human strengths as the orchestration of wisdom and selective optimization with compensation / Paul B. Baltes and Alexandra M. Freund
  • The human's greatest strength : other humans / Ellen Berscheid
  • Constructive cognition, personal goals, and the social embedding of personality / Nancy Cantor
  • A conception of personality for a psychology of human strengths : personality as an agentic, self-regulating system / Gian Vittorio Caprara and Daniel Cervone
  • Human aging : why is even good news taken as bad? / Laura L. Carstensen and Susan T. Charles
  • Three human strengths / Charles S. Carver and Michael F. Scheier
  • The malleability of sex differences in response to changing social roles / Alice H. Eagly and Amanda B. Diekman
  • Toward a positive psychology : social development and cultural contributions / Nancy Eisenberg and Vivian Ota Wang
  • Light and dark in the psychology of human strengths : the example of psychogerontology / Rocío Fernández-Ballesteros
  • Intervention as a major tool of a psychology of human strengths : examples from organizational change and innovation / Dieter Frey, Eva Jonas, and Tobias Greitemeyer
  • Judgmental heuristics : human strengths or human weaknesses? / Dale Griffin and Daniel Kahneman
  • Positive affect as a source of human strength / Alice M. Isen
  • The parametric unimodel of human judgment : a fanfare to the common thinker / Arie W. Kruglanski [and others]
  • Turning adversity to advantage : on the virtues of the coactivation of positive and negative emotions / Jeff T. Larsen [and others]
  • A holistic person approach for research on positive development / David Magnusson and Joseph L. Mahoney
  • Harnessing willpower and socioemotional intelligence to enhance human agency potential / Walter Mischel and Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton
  • The motivational sources of creativity as viewed from the paradigm of positive psychology / Jeanne Nakamura and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
  • Ironies of the human condition : well-being and health on the way to mortality / Carol D. Ryff and Burton Singer
  • Political symbols and collective moral action / David O. Sears
  • Positive clinical psychology / Martin E.P. Seligman and Christopher Peterson
  • Driven to despair : why we need to redefine the concept and measurement of intelligence / Robert J. Sternberg
  • The ecology of human strengths / Daniel Stokols.