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Women in Leadership Positions: Taking the Well-Being Road to Success
“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” – Maya Angelou I recently asked two close friends of mine, both women in leadership positions, what their thoughts were on...
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The Spectrum from Introversion to Extroversion
“Introverts are dependent on their own inside noise, extroverts are dependent of outside noise. The outputs are dependent on the quality of those noises.” – Amit K. Ghosh In recent years, the concept...
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The 10 Traits of a Positive Community
“Every successful individual knows that his or her achievement depends on a community of persons working together.” – Paul Ryan Humans are made to live and work with others; we are social beings...
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Logotherapy: Viktor Frankl’s Theory of Meaning
“What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a...
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Why Positive Psychology is Pioneering in the Psychology Zeitgeist
“The best way to predict the future is to invent it” -Alan Kay When we think of the future, of the impact our lives have had in forming the world we live in. What do you picture? The ideas,...
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3 Simple Steps to Overcome Your Negativity Bias
Do any of the following scenarios sound familiar? You received overwhelmingly positive feedback for something (perhaps a school assignment, your performance at work, your outfit, etc.) yet you find...
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How to Get your Desired Behaviour using Operant Conditioning
“If you want a different result you have to choose a different behaviour.” – Dr. Phil In behavioral psychology, reinforcement is a method of increasing the likelihood of a given behavior. Broadly,...
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How to Use Mental Contrasting to Fulfil your Wishes
“Positive thinking fools our minds into perceiving that we’ve already attained our goal, slackening our readiness to pursue it.” –Gabriele Oettingen (2014) “Think Positive”. At some point, someone...
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What can Positive Psychology Gain from Being Criticized?
As positive psychology is a relatively new field, criticisms have arisen around the extent of its use. This is natural for a burgeoning field as researchers figure out the best uses as well as the...
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4 Practical Benefits of Applying Positive Emotions
Happiness is such a central concept in life that we don’t often pause to consider what, exactly, happiness is, and why we work so tirelessly to attain it. To many, the pursuit of happiness is not...
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Why is Playlist Therapy Beneficial in a Clinical Setting?
“Music imprints itself on the brain deeper than any other human experience. Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring with it memory. Music brings back the feeling of life when nothing else can.”...
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How and When Do Children Develop a Negativity Bias?
Negativity bias is the idea that people pay more attention to negative things going on around them than positive things. Research in positive psychology is interested in this topic for the possibility...
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Positive Aging: 10 Positive Solutions to An Age Old Problem
Life expectancy has improved considerably during the past couple of decades, and an increasing amount of people are looking forward to twenty or more years of life after retirement. But the growing...
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How to Build and Maintain Trust in Your Relationships
“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.” –Ernest Hemingway Nearly all of the reasons why relationships fail is due to a lack of loyalty, honest communication and...
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How Can Positive Psychology Help in The Treatment of Depression?
Positive psychology continues to grow in size, scope, and widespread public interest since its inception nearly 20 years ago. Positive psychology principles and ideas can be applied to a wide range of...
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Get Access to the Latest in The Journal of Positive Psychology
The Journal of Positive Psychology is the first journal dedicated to positive psychology. It published six issues throughout the year and focuses on presenting the latest scientific findings on...
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What is Inspiring About Positive Psychology in Singapore?
Proponents of positive psychology claim that a strength of the field is in how many different places it can be applied, and one region proving this to be true is Singapore. Several strands of positive...
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Positive Nutrition: How to Improve Well-Being Holistically
One of the main goals of positive psychology is to increase well-being in all aspects of a person’s life (see the Wheel of Life). There are all sorts of mental well-being to be identified such as...
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The Positive Psychology Of Creativity
It doesn’t take long to find a link between Positive Psychology and creativity, and research into the link between well being and creativity is constantly growing. A quick look at the VIA framework...
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Why Self-Awareness Matters and How You Can be More Self-Aware
From the ancient Greek Aphorism “know thyself” to the western psychology, the topic of self-awareness has always been an intriguing subject of inquiry of philosophers and psychologists for the last...
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