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ABSTRACT While both practitioners and the public regard character strengths positively, some psychologists and philosophers harbor skepticism. In this analytical commentary on current research a...

http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s41042-024-00155-4

ABSTRACT Utility value interventions are one approach to promote students’ interest experience and performance. It is unexplored how utility value interventions affect attention besides enjoym...

http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s11031-024-10096-9

ABSTRACT A large and important part of the MSc studies at all Austrian and many European Universities is the mandatory internship, which takes up to one semester in duration. During this signifi...

http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s42087-022-00298-3

ABSTRACT Economists’ conceptions about the “nature of the economic agent” are central to understanding their economic thinking, the phenomena that deserve their attention, the way they bui...

http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s11299-024-00310-z

ABSTRACT Scholarly publications play a vital role in the advancement of psychotherapy, as a creative treatment strategy and as an empirically supported approach. The best scholarly articles inte...

http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10879-024-09635-9

ABSTRACT The harmony thesis about a virtuous person, widely held by neo-Aristotelians, supposes that someone highly vulnerable to temptation is not virtuous at all. However, is that the only pla...

http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s11712-024-09956-5

ABSTRACT Critiques of positive psychology, as summarized by Van Zyl et al. in J Posit Psychol, 2023, have claimed that positive psychology (1) lacks proper theorizing; (2) over-relies on quantit...

http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s41042-024-00166-1

ABSTRACT Daily clinical practice of mental health professionals often requires interaction between providers from diverse training and professional backgrounds. Efforts to engage mental health t...

http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10578-023-01522-z

ABSTRACT In philosophical discourse, flourishing is widely thought to require the development and exercise of virtues. Positive psychology, as the science of happiness and flourishing, should, t...

http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s41042-024-00167-0

ABSTRACT Misconceptions or inaccurate ideas about Alzheimer’s disease (AD) can be found in college students from health-related careers. Refutation texts explicitly introduce inaccurate inform...

http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10212-024-00850-5

ABSTRACT Positive psychology scholarship has been criticized for prioritizing individuals’ personal well-being over moral concerns. Therefore, using the example of gratitude, we offer a correc...

http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s41042-024-00157-2

ABSTRACT Positive psychology is facing an existential crisis. An overemphasis on examining positive character traits, strengths, institutions, and communities at the exclusion of existential rea...

http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s41042-024-00184-z

ABSTRACT Psychologists’ assumptions about the world influence theory creation, hypothesis testing, and practical applications. In A Secular Age, Charles Taylor describes how the historical pro...

http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s41042-023-00131-4

ABSTRACT This article describes two studies which test predictions derived from the Theory of Subjective Wellbeing Homeostasis in relation to self-report, correlational data. The theory proposes...

http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s41042-024-00176-z

ABSTRACT A review of research on the relationship between academic engagement and burnout reveals three research gaps as most of the research was conducted: i) without analysing all its multiple...

http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10212-024-00857-y

ABSTRACT This study investigates self-deceptive enhancement (SDE) as a control for response style in measuring positive psychology constructs, focusing on work engagement and three self-reported...

http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s41042-024-00150-9

ABSTRACT As the field of positive psychology matures, many have called for an expansion in epistemological and methodological approaches to enable a more complex study of wellbeing. This article...

http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s41042-024-00147-4

ABSTRACT As addressed in the critiques related to theory, measurement, and contextualization identified in Van Zyl et al.’s (J Posit Psychol 1–30, 2023) systematic review, positive psycholog...

http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s41042-024-00191-0

ABSTRACT Psychological observations are by now well integrated into economics, especially in the theory of finance, as can also be seen in the Nobel Prize awarded to Thaler. On the contrary, Sim...

http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s11299-024-00303-y

ABSTRACT This opinion article critically examines two fundamental categories of critiques of positive psychology scholarship: the lack of a clear definition of ‘positive,’ and the perceived ...

http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s41042-024-00168-z