A Critique of Positive Psychology—or ‘The New Science of Happiness’
By Alistair Miller. 2008
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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Social Psychology
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In Applied Psychology
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Citations in the corpus
- The student voice in well-being: a case study of participatory action research in positive education (2019, background): “Despite this, the field has been criticised for an over-emphasis on positivity, individualism, and ignoring social and structural factors that influence individual outcomes, amongst other criticisms (e.g. Held 2004; Lazarus 2003; Miller 2008).”
- Happiness, positive psychology and the program of neoliberal governmentality (2011, background): “blurring of traditional distinctions between healthy and pathological states (Lazarus, 2003; Miller, 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).”
- 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).”
- Protection as the Mirror Image of Psychopathology: Further Critical Notes on the Self-Compassion Scale (2016, background): “We do want to note that in general, the positive psychological field has received similar critiques in terms of a lack of theoretical clarity (e.g., Miller 2008).”
- How to Grow up Happy: An Exploratory Study on the Meaning of Happiness from Children’s Voices (2011, unknown): “In this respect, see White (2007), Miller (2008) , Smith (2008), Suissa (2008), Cigman (2008), and Jonas (2010).”
- Positive Psychology and Positive Education: Old Wine in New Bottles? (2012, background): “In a similar vein, Alastair Miller (2008) argued that positive psychology exclusively promotes a particular personality type: a cheerful, outgoing, goal-driven, status-seeking extrovert, who is nothing in the end but a shallow careerist.”