A psychology of human strengths: Fundamental questions and future directions for a positive psychology.

Abstract

A Psychology of Human Strengths: Some Central Issues of an Emerging Field, Lisa G. Aspinwall and Ursula M. Staudinger Human Strength as the Orchestration of Wisdom and Selective Optimization with Compensation (SOC), Paul B. Baltes and Alexandra M. Freund The Human's Greatest Strength - Other Humans, Ellen Berscheid Constructive Cognition, Personal Goals, and the Social Embedding of Personality, Nancy Cantor A Conception of Personality for a Psychology of Human Strengths - Personality as an Agentic, Self-Regulating System, Gian Vittorio Caprara and Daniel Cervone Human Aging - Why Is Even Good News Taken as Bad?, Laura L. Carstensen and Susan T. Charles Three Human Strengths, Charles S. Carver and Michael F. Scheier The Malleability of Sex Differences in Response to Changing Social Roles, Alice H. Eagly and Amanda B. Diekman Toward a Positive Psychology - Social Developmental and Cultural Contributions, Nancy Eisenberg and Vivian Ota Wang Light and Dark in the Psychology of Human Strengths - The Example of Psychogerontology, Roc o Fern ndez-Ballesteros Intervention as a Major Tool of a Psychology of Human Strength - Examples from Organizational Change and Innovation, Dieter Frey, Eva Jonas, and Tobias Greitemeyer Judgmental Heuristics: Human Strengths or Human Weaknesses?, Dale Griffin and Daniel Kahneman Positive Affect as a Source of Human Strength, Alice Isen The Parametric Unimodel of Human Judgment - A Fanfare to the Common Thinker, Arie W. Kruglanski, Hans-Peter Erb, Scott Spiegel, and Antonio Pierro Turning Adversity to Advantage - On the Virtues of the Coactivation of Positive and Negative Emotions, Jeff T. Larsen, Scott H. Hemenover, Catherine J. Norris, and John T. Cacioppo A Holistic Person Approach for Research on Positive Development, David Magnusson and Joseph L. Mahoney Harnessing Willpower and Socio-emotional Intelligence to Enhance Human Agency and Potential, Walter Mischel and Rodolpho Mendoza-Denton The Motivational Sources of Creativity as Viewed from the Paradigm of Positive Psychology, Jeanne Nakamura and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Ironies of the Human Condition: Well-being and Health on the Way to Mortality, Carol D. Ryff and Burton Singer Political Symbols and Collective Moral Action, David O. Sears Positive Clinical Psychology, Martin E. P. Seligman and Christopher Peterson Driven to Despair: Why We Need to Redefine the Concept and Measurement of Intelligence, Robert J. Sternberg The Ecology of Human Strengths, Daniel Stokols.

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Affiliated Institutions

• Max Planck Society DE
• Max Planck Institute for Human Development DE

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