Positive Psychology: Using Positivity to Bounce Back from Inevitable Setbacks

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Using Positivity to Bounce Back from Inevitable Setbacks - YouTube

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Barbara Fredrickson, Boston University's 2009-2010 Templeton Fellow, is the Kenan Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Author of the book Positivity, she delivers a lecture titled Using Positivity to Bounce Back from Inevitable Setbacks, one of the final three lectures in the public component of the Danielsen Institute's Religious and Psychological Well-being Project.

Her lecture focuses on positive emotions as the fundamental ingredient in allowing people to be resilient and bounce back from adversity.

Hosted by the Danielsen Institute Center for the Study of Religion and Psychology on March 20, 2010

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Using Positivity to Bounce Back from Inevitable Setbacks - YouTube

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEEyjTWogiY&feature=relmfu

Positive Psychology given credence by Academia:

Positive psychology is the scientific study of the strengths and virtues that enable individuals and communities to thrive.

Commentators on the subject Martin Seligman and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, note that:

"The field of positive psychology at the subjective level is about valued subjective experiences: well-being, contentment, and satisfaction (in the past); hope and optimism (for the future); and flow and happiness (in the present).

At the individual level, it is about positive individual traits: the capacity for love and vocation, courage, interpersonal skill, aesthetic sensibility, perseverance, forgiveness, originality, future mindedness, spirituality, high talent, and wisdom.

At the group level, it is about the civic virtues and the institutions that move individuals toward better citizenship: responsibility, nurturance, altruism, civility, moderation,tolerance, and work ethic."