Edition |
1st ed. |
Description |
xvi, 369 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
Contents |
A psychology of human strengths : some central issues of an emerging field / Lisa G. Aspinwall and Ursula M. Staudinger -- Human strengths as the orchestration of wisdom and selective optimization with compensation / 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-regulatiing system / Gian Vittorio Caprara and Daniel Cervone -- Human aging : why is even good news taken as bad? / Laura L. Casrstensen 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. Dickman -- Toward a positive psychology : social development and cultural contributions / Nancy Eisenberg and Vivian Ota Wang -- Light and dark in the psychology of human strengths : the example of psychogerontology / Rocío Fernández-Ballesteros -- Intervention as a major tool of a psychology of human strengths : 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 M. Isen -- The parametric unimodel of human judgment : a fanfare to the common thinker / Arie W. Kruglanski ... [et al.] -- Turning adversity to advantage : on the virtues of the coactivation of positive and negative emotions / Jeff T. Larsen ... [et al.] -- A holistic person approach for research on positive development / David Magnusson and Joseph L. Mahoney -- Harnessing willpower and socioemotional intelligence to enhance human agency potential / Walter Mischel and Rodolfo 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 concept and measurement of intelligence / Robert J. Sternberg -- The ecology of human strengths / Daniel Stokols. |
Subject |
Psychology.
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Psychology. |
Added Author |
Aspinwall, Lisa G.
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Staudinger, Ursula M.
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ISBN |
1557989311 alkaline paper |
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