Scientific Pollyannaism: From Inquisition to Positive Psychology

ISBN-13: 9783030159849 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 241 str.

Oksana Yakushko

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​Chapter 1: An Introduction to (Supposedly) Good Life

Chapter 2: Demonized Emotions and Tortured Bodies in the Age of Scientific Progress

Rationalizing the Demonization and Murder of Witches

Killing the Healers

Ridding the World of Women with "Passions"

Chapter 3: The Survival of the Happiest Who (Get To) Control the Resources and Procreation

Alternatives to Scientific Pollyannaism Found on the Galapagos

The Survival of the Happiest

Darwin's Happy Housewives

Chapter 4: Eugenic Scientific Utopias Filled with Socially Engineered Happy Productive People

The Utopian Vissions of Eugenic Racial Betterment

Happy Eugenic Brains and Resilient Germo-Plasms

The Scientific Efforts to Rid the World of the "Evolutionary Unfit"

Happy "Mothers of the Race"

The Advanced Western Sciences of Eugenic Human Betterment

Tales of Finding Genetic Origins of Beauty and the Best

On Testing Intelligence and Finding (Un)Happiness

Chapter 5: From the Science of Human Betterment to the Science of Behavioral Control

The Eugenic Roots of American Behaviorism

Darwinism and the Sciences of Emotional Control

The Myths and the Horrors of "Little Albert" Experiments

The Parenting Utopias and the "Dangers of Too Much Mother Love"

Scientific Sadistic Pollyanaism: The Survivor Stories

Chapter 6: Scientific Pollyannaism of Authentic Happiness, Learned Optimism, Flow and the Empirically Correct Positivity Ratios

The Exotic Resort Solutions to Re-Creating Scientific Pollyannaism

Torture and the Contemporary Scientific Pollyannaism

Building a New Religion from the Sciences of Happiness

"Top Notch Research" of Positive Psychology

More Secrets and Lies in Positive Psychology

Funding of New Scientific Pollyannaism

Happy Hateful States

Winning the "Glad Games" by Ethnocentric Nationalism and Late Stage Capitalism

Raising Pollyannas: The Sciences of Making Children Orphan Their Feelings

Mythic Evolutionary Origins of Pollyannaism

Happiness is (Once Again) Mostly in Your Genes

The "Hard" Sciences Behind Contemporary Scientific Pollyannaism

Chapter 7: On Being Pollyanna about Sciences

The Discovery of Scientism

Scientific or Scientistic Pollyannaism From The Hammer of Witches to "Race Realism"

The Pioneering Funding of Scientific Racist Pollyannaism

How Pollyannas Become Enlightened Through Sciences

Hopeful Sciences of White Supremacy and White Nationalism

On Racist "Shameful Sciences" and the Empirical "Pretext" for Patriarchal "Happiness"

Chapter 8: Critics and Critiques of Scientific Pollyannaism

The Over-Emotional "Shrew" Whom Socrates Could Not "Break"

Chesterton on Scientific Eugenics As "Our Happy Holiday in the Land of Nonsense"

"The Actual Unhappiness of the American Housewife" and the "Feminist Killjoy"

The Political Use of Human Emotions: The Case of Neo-Liberalism

"Psytizens" and the "Happiness Industry"

Chapter 9: Re-telling the Story of Orphaned Girl Named Pollyanna

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Oksana Yakushko, PhD, is Department Chair and faculty member at Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, CA, USA.