TARGET ARTICLE: Does the Positive Psychology Movement Have Legs?

By R. Lazarus. 2003

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Safety Research, Social Psychology

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In the Eyes of the Beholder (2009, unknown): “Several critics (Fineman, 2006; Lazarus, 2003) of the positive movement have notably raised concerns about the utility of PsyCap with respect to work outcomes.”
The “point” of positive organizational behavior (2009, background): “Although critical on almost every dimension, Lazarus started by declaring that positive psychology makes “the spurious claim of being new, but, in reality, in one form or another, it is thousands of years old” (Lazarus, 2003a, p. 94).”
Happiness and despair on the catwalk: Need satisfaction, well-being, and personality adjustment among fashion models (2007, background): “Lazarus (2003) made the important point that most social science research (and positive psychology research in particular) tends to exaggerate the magnitude of group differences and downplay individual differences within groups.”
So Far So Good: An Overview of Positive Psychology and Its Contributions to SLA (2016, background): “One of the most prominent scholarly critiques of PosPsy was offered by Lazarus (2003a, b) in what would be two of the last articles he wrote before he died in 2002. The journal Psychological Inquiry dedicated an entire issue to a debate that began with Lazarus (2003a) asking “Does the Positive Psych”
Defining the ‘positive’ in positive psychology: Part I. A descriptive analysis (2016, background): “Lazarus (2003) argues that the positive and the negative constitute a basic polarity that ‘represents two sides of the same coin of life’ (p. 94) and that it is just not possible to separate them.”
Character Strengths and Intellectual and Developmental Disability: A Strengths-Based Approach from Positive Psychology (2017, unknown): “…of positive psychology have been voiced, particularly related to concerns about an inadequate emphasis on negative experiences that people encounter in life (Held, 2004; Lazarus, 2003) or inadequate consideration of the range of virtues that deﬁne mo-rality and moral behavior (Fowers, 2008).”
Systems informed positive psychology (2020, background): “…promoting unrealistic positive thinking, ignoring the impact of context and life experiences, incorporating circular reasoning and tautological assertions, and ignoring the important role that suffering plays in human experience (e.g., Coyne & Tennen, 2010; Held, 2004; Lazarus, 2003; Miller, 2008).”