Dreaming the American Dream: Individualism and Positive Psychology

By D. Becker, J. Marecek. 2008

128 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: General Psychology, Social Psychology

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In General Psychology

1. T. Lomas
2. K. Kristjánsson

In Social Psychology

1. L. Waters
2. Margaret L. Kern
3. Paige L. Williams
4. L. Oades
5. T. Lomas
6. K. Kristjánsson
7. Sarah Mercer
8. D. Loton

Citations in the corpus

• Towards a positive cross-cultural lexicography: Enriching our emotional landscape through 216 ‘untranslatable’ words pertaining to well-being (2016, background): “Critical theorists have often accused positive psychology (PP) of developing a culturally specific understanding of well-being (Becker & Marecek, 2008).”
• Positive Psychology, Happiness, and Virtue: The Troublesome Conceptual Issues (2010, background): “…contrast, have to start with the creation of just and equitable social arrangements that alone can lay the foundation for individual flourishing (Becker & Marecek, 2008a; cf. Oishi, Kesebir, & Snyder, 2009, who consider the loss of a “sociological perspective” a more widespread malaise in the…”
• Third wave positive psychology: broadening towards complexity (2020, background): “This linguistic bias is an issue, since the knowledge developed within the field is therefore to an extent provincial and culturally-specific, influenced by the values and traditions associated with the United States, from individualism to consumer capitalism (Becker & Marecek, 2008).”