What (and Why) is Positive Psychology?

By Shelly L. Gable, Jonathan Haidt. 2005

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Social Psychology

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The impact of Emotional Intelligence on academic achievement: A longitudinal study in Portuguese secondary school (2015, background): “…Intelligence: concept and assessment Popularized in early 90s, EI, considered as a source of greater wellbeing and happiness, focused on enhancing the positive human characteristics, experiences and outcomes (Gable & Haidt, 2005), integrated the emerging positive psychologist movements of the date.”
The relation between emotional intelligence and subjective well-being: A meta-analytic investigation (2016, background): “Positive psychology generally refers to the scientific study of the strengths and virtues that enable individuals and communities to thrive (Gable & Haidt, 2005).”
The Psychology of Encouragement (2015, background): “This focus on ecological settings is an important correction to the individualistic bias that exists in most psychological research (Reis, Collins, & Berscheid, 2000), including positive psychology (Gable & Haidt, 2005; Wong, 2006b).”
Personality Change: Implications for Organizational Behavior (2018, background): “This emphasis on acting positively to achieve improvement has been criticized for offering simplistic answers to ageold questions concerning how to achieve happiness (Gable & Haidt, 2005; Miller, 2008).”
Positive Psychology and Positive Education: Old Wine in New Bottles? (2012, background): “In one study, the incidence of positive emotional terms in young nuns’ notebooks predicted their longevity, and women who were smiling in their college yearbook photos were considerably better adjusted and happier 30 years later than their nonsmiling peers (Gable & Haidt, 2005 , p.”
History of Social Psychology: Insights, Challenges, and Contributions to Theory and Application (2010, neutral): “Specific topics of inquiry include happiness, optimism, creativity, hope, gratitude, forgiveness, love, and other aspects of wellbeing (e.g., Gable & Haidt, 2005; Langer, 2002; Lyubomirsky, King, & Diener, 2005).”
The Working for Wellness Program: RCT of an Employee Well-Being Intervention (2012, background): “As has been well advanced in recent years, these applied, yet rigorous fields of research encourage a change in focus towards the promotion of positive individual and organizational functioning rather than just malady or malfunctioning (Gable and Haidt 2005).”
Positive psychology in a pandemic: buffering, bolstering, and building mental health (2021, background): “…relationships that foster optimal functioning and flourishing in people, groups, and institutions (Aspinwall & Staudinger, 2003; Cameron et al., 2003; Gable & Haidt, 2005: Peterson & Seligman, 2004; Seligman, 1999) Launched in the late 1990s as a way to counterbalance the intense research focus on…”
Dreaming the American Dream: Individualism and Positive Psychology (2008, background): “For example, Peterson (2006) and Gable and Haidt (2005) defer the study of ‘positive institutions’ to ‘positive sociology’ and ‘positive anthropology’.”
Happiness, positive psychology and the program of neoliberal governmentality (2011, neutral): “(Gable and Haidt, 2005).”
The Authentic Personality: A Theoretical and Empirical Conceptualization and the Development of the Authenticity Scale (2008, background): “This is partly through highlighting understudied areas of research (Gable & Haidt, 2005) and partly through promoting an increased dialogue between humanistic and empirical psychologists, involving the rigorous scientific testing of ideas with humanistic and counseling psychology lineage (Joseph &…”
Positive Psychology, Happiness, and Virtue: The Troublesome Conceptual Issues (2010, background): “Recent years have witnessed an exponential growth in positive psychology’s output and influence, a growth that amazes even its most ardent supporters (see, e.g., Gable & Haidt, 2005, p. 103).”
Good News! Capitalizing on Positive Events in an Interpersonal Context (2010, background): “For instance, estimates from daily experience studies conservatively place the ratio at about three positive to every one negative event (Gable & Haidt, 2005).”