The Negative Side of Positive Psychology

By B. Held. 2004

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Social Psychology

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Positive Psychology, Ethnocentrism, and the Disguised Ideology of Individualism (2008, background): “In line with this, there has been little value accorded to negative emotions in positive psychology (Held, 2002, 2004; Norem & Chang, 2002; Woolfolk, 2002).”
Introducing Positive Psychology to SLA. (2014, background): “PP has itself also generated a number of critiques (Brown, Sokal, & Friedman, 2013; Coyne & Tennen, 2010; Friedman & Robbins, 2012; Held, 2004; Waterman, 2013).”
Positive Psychology: A Foucauldian Critique (2008, background): “In a similar vein, Barbara Held ( 2002 , 2004 , 2005 ) has called into question the tyranny of the positive attitude in the United States (to which positive psychology has become the new vanguard; Held, 2002 ), positive psychology's separatist stance (Held, 2004 ), and positive psychology's atte”
An applied framework for Positive Education (2013, background): “Appreciating the danger of promoting the idea that positive emotions and thoughts must be experienced continuously (Held, 2004), students are encouraged to cultivate and enhance positive emotions without avoiding, suppressing, or denying negative reactions”
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).”
Is the Study of Happiness a Worthy Scientific Pursuit? (2008, background): “Held (2004) has warned against the "tyranny of the positive attitude" or the ideology that humans must consistently think positive thoughts and maintain high happiness levels.”
Positive psychology: Past, present, and (possible) future (2006, background): “A common perception has been that positive psychology emphasises the positive at the expense of the negative (Held, 2004; Lazarus, 2003).”
What is the Good Life? Positive Psychology and the Renaissance of Humanistic Psychology (2008, background): “…goals of humanistic and positive psychology, positive psychology has received a much colder reception from humanistic psychologists than might be expected (e.g., Bohart & Greening , 2001; Held, 2004; S. B. Shapiro, 2001; Sugarman, 2007; Sundararajan, 2005; Taylor, 2001; Woolfolk & Wasserman, 2005).”
Third wave positive psychology: broadening towards complexity (2020, background): “labelled lightweight, must be studied empirically using mainly quantitative designs (Held, 2004; Rich, 2017; Synard & Gazzola, 2013).”
From Continence to Virtue (2008, background): “The critical response to positive psychology in this volume and in other publications (Guignon, 2002; Held, 2004, 2005; Schwartz & Sharpe, 2006) is part of the conversation about the value of positive psychologists’ reinterpretation of the goods that psychology ought to pursue.”
Second Wave Positive Psychology: Exploring the Positive–Negative Dialectics of Wellbeing (2016, background): “This co-evolution substantiates the more general point that well- and ill-being can coexist, as Bassi et al. (2014) report in relation to persons with multiple sclerosis.”
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).”
The “point” of positive organizational behavior (2009, background): “Not surprising, positive psychology has been confronted with most of the same questions as above (e.g., see Held, 2004 and a special issue of Psychological Inquiry 14(2), 2003).”
Shifting the Lens on Organizational Life: The Added Value of Positive Scholarship (2006, background): “People and states that have not been situated squarely in the “positive scholarship movement” may be construed, by way of exclusion, as being inherently negative (Held, 2004; Norem & Chang, 2002).”