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What does positive psychology focus on?
What does positive psychology focus on?
- Positive subjective experience, positive individual traits, and positive institutions (correct)
- Negative subjective experience, negative individual traits, and negative institutions
- Subjective experience, individual traits, and institutions
- Balanced subjective experience, balanced individual traits, and balanced institutions
What are some of the positive features ignored by the exclusive focus on pathology?
What are some of the positive features ignored by the exclusive focus on pathology?
- Hope, wisdom, creativity, future mindedness, courage, spirituality (correct)
- Hope, wisdom, creativity, pessimism, courage, spirituality
- Hope, wisdom, creativity, future mindedness, cowardice, spirituality
- Fear, ignorance, laziness, past mindedness, cowardice, materialism
What do the authors of the articles in the millennial issue of the American Psychologist discuss?
What do the authors of the articles in the millennial issue of the American Psychologist discuss?
- What causes sadness, the effects of control and restriction, how pessimism and despair affect health, what constitutes foolishness, and how talent and creativity are wasted
- What enables happiness, the effects of autonomy and self-regulation, how optimism and hope affect health, what constitutes foolishness, and how talent and creativity come to fruition
- What enables happiness, the effects of autonomy and self-regulation, how pessimism and despair affect health, what constitutes wisdom, and how talent and creativity are wasted
- What enables happiness, the effects of autonomy and self-regulation, how optimism and hope affect health, what constitutes wisdom, and how talent and creativity come to fruition (correct)
What do the authors predict for the next century?
What do the authors predict for the next century?
What choice do Americans face entering a new millennium?
What choice do Americans face entering a new millennium?