PSYC 4220 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Positive Psychology, Loose Coupling, Pleasure

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 4220
• Professor: Tifrah Warner

Document Summary

Positive psychology in individuals, communities, and societies to flourish. The mission of positive psychology is to understand and foster the factors that allow. Positive emotions serve as markers of flourishing, or optimal well-being. The overall balance of people"s positive and negative emotions has been shown to predict. Objective happiness can best be measured by tracking (and later aggregating) people"s. According to these perspectives, positive emotions signal flourishing. Moreover, they do so not simply within the present, pleasant moment but over the long term as well. momentary experiences of good and bad feelings. their judgments of subjective well-being. Positive emotions are worth cultivating, not just as end states in themselves but also as a means to achieving psychological growth and improved well-being over time. Emotions are best conceptualized as multicomponent response tendencies that unfold over. An emotion begins with an individual"s assessment of the personal meaning of some relatively short time spans. antecedent event.