PSYC 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 56: Positive Psychology
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Positive psychology: discipline that has sought to emphasize human strengths, such as resilience, coping, life satisfaction. Also focuses on helping people find ways to enhance positive emotions like happiness and fulfillment as well as on building psychologically healthy communities. Defensive pessimism: strategy of anticipating failure and compensating for this expectation by mentally over preparing for negative outcomes: this strategy helps certain people improve their performance, probably bc it encourages them to work harder. I(cid:374)di(cid:448)idual differe(cid:374)(cid:272)es re(cid:373)i(cid:374)d us to (cid:271)e (cid:449)ary of (cid:862)o(cid:374)e size fits all(cid:863) solutio(cid:374)s to life"s multifaceted problems. Broaden and build theory: theory proposing that happiness predisposes us to think more openly: broader thinking may permit us to find novel solutions to problems. Misconception 1: the prime determinant of happiness is what happens to us: they fou(cid:374)d that life (cid:272)ir(cid:272)u(cid:373)sta(cid:374)(cid:272)es (cid:449)ere esse(cid:374)tially u(cid:374)(cid:272)orrelated (cid:449)ith (cid:449)o(cid:373)e(cid:374)"s current levels of happiness. Misconception 2: money makes up happy: mo(cid:374)ey (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t (cid:271)uy lo(cid:374)g ter(cid:373) happi(cid:374)ess.
