Problematic Ontological Underpinnings of Positive Psychology

By B. Slife, F. Richardson. 2008

102 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Applied Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/4fad76bb1571cfa8539d06a76a74cc60aa09c6a0

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In Applied Psychology

1. S. Hickinbottom
2. J. Christopher
3. K. Kristjánsson

In Clinical Psychology

1. S. Hickinbottom
2. J. Christopher
3. K. Kristjánsson

In Social Psychology

1. K. Kristjánsson
2. S. Hickinbottom
3. J. Christopher
4. Mohsen Joshanloo
5. S. Filep

Citations in the corpus

• Positive Psychology, Happiness, and Virtue: The Troublesome Conceptual Issues (2010, background): “The final misgiving is that positive psychology does not provide us with a clear ontology of selfhood (see, e.g., Slife & Richardson, 2008).”
• Eastern Conceptualizations of Happiness: Fundamental Differences with Western Views (2013, unknown): “An emphasis on certain moral values is not consistent with the dominant western emphasis on moral relativism (Christopher and Hickinbottom 2008; Richardson and Guignon 2008; Slife and Richardson 2008).”
• Positive Psychology, Ethnocentrism, and the Disguised Ideology of Individualism (2008, background): “A number of the other articles in this special issue attempt to develop these alternative approaches (Christopher & Campbell, 2008; Richardson & Guignon, 2008; Slife & Richardson, 2008).”