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Learned Helplessness or Learned Resourcefulness?

Learned Helplessness or Learned Resourcefulness?

unsplash-logoArisa Chattasa Learned helplessness or learned resourcefulness? It primarily depends on one’s upbringing or prior training. When Marty Seligman and Steve Maier were doing research on learned helplessness, Abram Amsel and I did a number of important...

The Positive Psychology of Humility

The Positive Psychology of Humility

unsplash-logoThao Le Hoang The benefit and significance of humility as a virtue has been emphasized in positive psychology for a long time (Wright et al., 2016; Wong, 2003). Humility is a virtue worth having for everyone. Yet, positive psychologists are known to score...

Let Your Vulnerability be Your Strength

Let Your Vulnerability be Your Strength

President’s Column for the Positive Living Newsletter (March 2019). Read the rest of the newsletter here. Are you worried about being vulnerable? “Vulnerability” is derived from the Latin word vulnerare (to be wounded); it describes the potential to be injured...

The Maturing of Positive Psychology and the Emerging PP 2.0: A Book Review of Positive Psychology (3rd ed.) by William Compton and Edward Hoffman

The Maturing of Positive Psychology and the Emerging PP 2.0: A Book Review of Positive Psychology (3rd ed.) by William Compton and Edward Hoffman

Positive Psychology: The Science of Happiness and Flourishing (3rd ed.) By William C. Compton and Edward Hoffman Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2019. 528 pp. ISBN 978-1544322926 $95.00 Reviewed by Paul T. P. Wong Abstract Compton and Hoffman’s third edition of Positive...

From Shame to Wholeness: An Existential Positive Psychology Perspective

From Shame to Wholeness: An Existential Positive Psychology Perspective

“Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.” (Genesis 3:7, NIV) According to this biblical story, shame, guilt, and anxiety are the tragic triangle of existential...

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