Positive Psychology (eBook)

Aleksandra Kostic is Professor of Social Psychology at Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Psychology, University of NiS, Serbia. She teaches courses on Social Perception, Nonverbal Behavior and Psychology of Interpersonal Behavior. Her research interests include examining the accuracy of the social psychology of nonverbal behaviour, social, emotional, and perceptual judgments, especially the judgments of primary emotions from the face, emotional intensity and antecedent-events and reaction to emotion. She is particularly interested in cross-cultural study of facial expression, questions of universal antecedents of the emotions, research on deception and facial clues to deceit. Derek Chadee is Professor of Social Psychology and Director of the ANSA McAL Psychological Research Centre at the University of the West Indies. He is a Fulbright Research Scholar and has published several books in the area of social psychology. He has a robust research agenda on the psychology of fear of crime and has published in several international journals including: Journal of Applied Social Psychology, Psychology of Popular Media Culture British Journal of Criminology, International Victimology, Media and Culture, Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. He has a strong interest in social psychological theories and his second edition of Theories in Social Psychology, Wiley, is forthcoming in 2021.

List of Contributors ix

Acknowledgment xv

1 Embracing Psychology Positively 1
Derek Chadee and Aleksandra Kostic

2 The Empathy-Altruism Hypothesis 12
C. Daniel Batson

3 Positive Creativity 33
Robert J. Sternberg

4 Science of Well-Being: Notable Advances 43
Jessica Kansky and Ed Diener

5 Positive Psychology: Coaching Leadership Tensions 69
Ilona Boniwell and Wendy-Ann Smith

6 Positive Cyberpsychology: A Conceptual Framework 85
Jolanta Burke

7 Earth to Humans: Get with It or Get Out!: Adaptive Intelligence in the Age of Human-Induced Catastrophes 102
Robert J. Sternberg

8 Time Perspective and Good Feelings 113
Aleksandra Kostic, Derek Chadee, and Marija Pejicic

9 Physiological and Epigenetic: Implications of Positive Emotions 129
Massimo Agnoletti and Sandro Formica

10 Youth Civic Engagement: Exploring Micro and Macro Social Processes 152
Laura Wray-Lake, Burkhard Gniewosz, Celina Benavides,and Sara Wilf

11 The Ups and Downs of Love: What Makes Love Go Well, or Badly? 177
Robert J. Sternberg

12 Flow: A Component of the Good Life 193
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

13 Global Perspectives on Positive Psychological Science 201
Stewart I. Donaldson, Saeideh Heshmati, and Scott I. Donaldson

14 Self-Efficacy, Collective Efficacy and Positive Psychology 214
Shari Young Kuchenbecker

15 Creating and Disseminating Positive Psychology Interventions: Going Viral to Staying Vital 236
Everett L. Worthington, Jr.

16 From Serbia with Positive Orientation: The Serbian Studies 260
Vesna Petrovic, Dragan ?uljevic, and Gian Vittorio Caprara

Index 292