Positive Psychology: An International Perspective

ISBN-13: 9781119666448 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 320 str.

Derek Chadee; Aleksandra Kostic

Spis treści

List of Contributors ixAcknowledgment xviIntroduction: Embracing Psychology Positively xvii1 The Empathy-Altruism Hypothesis:What It Is and Why It's Important 1C. Daniel Batson2 Positive Creativity: Creativity in Service of a Better World 22Robert J. Sternberg3 Notable Advances in the Science of Well-Being 32Jessica Kansky and Ed Diener4 Positive Psychology Coaching for Leadership Tensions 57Ilona Boniwell and Wendy-Ann Smith5 Positive Cyberpsychology: A Conceptual Framework of an Emerging Field 73Jolanta Burke6 Earth to Humans: Get with It or Get Out!: Adaptive Intelligence in the Age of Human-Induced Catastrophes 90Robert J. Sternberg7 Time Perspective and Good Feelings 101Aleksandra Kostic, Derek Chadee, and Marija Pejicic8 Physiological and Epigenetic Implications of Positive Emotions 117Massimo Agnoletti and Sandro Formica9 Youth Civic Engagement: Exploring Micro and Macro Social Processes 140Laura Wray-Lake, Burkhard Gniewosz, Celina Benavides, and Sara Wilf10 The Ups and Downs of Love: What Makes Love Go Well, or Badly? 165Robert J. Sternberg11 Flow as a Component of a Good Life 181Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi12 Global Perspectives on Positive Psychological Science: Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses 189Stewart I. Donaldson, Saida Hesmati, and Scott I. Donaldson13 Self-Efficacy, Collective Efficacy, and Positive Psychology 202Shari Young Kuchenbecker14 Positive Psychology Intervention: Going Viral and Staying Vital 224Everett L. Worthington, Jr15 From Serbia with Positive Orientation: The Serbian Studies 248Vesna Petrovic, Dragan Zuljevic, and Gian Vittorio CapraraIndex 000

O autorze

Aleksandra Kostic is Professor of Social Psychology at Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Psychology, University of Nia, Serbia. She teaches courses on Social Perception, Nonverbal Behavior and Psychology of Interpersonal Behavior. Her research interests include examining the accuracy of the social psychology of nonverbal behaviour, social, emotional, and perceptual judgments, especially the judgments of primary emotions from the face, emotional intensity and antecedent-events and reaction to emotion. She is particularly interested in cross-cultural study of facial expression, questions of universal antecedents of the emotions, research on deception and facial clues to deceit.Derek Chadee is Professor of Social Psychology and Director of the ANSA McAL Psychological Research Centre at the University of the West Indies. He is a Fulbright Research Scholar and has published several books in the area of social psychology. He has a robust research agenda on the psychology of fear of crime and has published in several international journals including: Journal of Applied Social Psychology, Psychology of Popular Media Culture British Journal of Criminology, International Victimology, Media and Culture, Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. He has a strong interest in social psychological theories and his second edition of Theories in Social Psychology, Wiley, is forthcoming in 2021.