Positive Psychology CenterTheoretical Foundations of Positive Psychology:
Positive Psychology: An Introduction, Seligman & Csikszentmihalyi, 2000
APA President’s Address, Seligman, 1998
American Psychologist: Special Issue on Positive Psychology, 2000
Positive Psychology FAQs, Seligman & Pawelski, 2003
A Balanced Psychology and a Full Life, Seligman, Parks, & Steen, 2004
What (and Why) is Positive Psychology?, Gable and Haidt, 2005
Dynamic Spread of Happiness in a Large Social Network: Longitudinal Analysis over 20 Years in the Framingham Heart Study, Fowler & Christakis, 2008
Happiness Can Spread Among People Like a Contagion, Study Indicates, Washington Post, 2008
Non Zero: The Logic of Human Destiny, Robert Wright, 2001
Ordinary Magic: Resilience Processes in Development, Masten, 2001
The Better Angels of Our Nature, Pinker 2011
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, Pinker, 2018
PERMA and the Building Blocks of Well-Being, Seligman, 2018
Positive Psychology: A Personal History, Seligman, 2019
Agency in Greco Roman Philosophy, Seligman, 2020
Agency in Ancient China, Zhao, Seligman et al., 2021
Psychological History and Predicting the Future, Seligman, 2022
Well-Being Research:
Beyond Money, Diener and Seligman, 2004
Subjective Well-Being: Three Decades of Progress, Diener at al., 1999
Subjective Well-Being: The Science of Happiness and a Proposal for a National Index, Diener, 2000
Using Well Being for Public Policy: Theory, Measurement, and Recommendations, Adler and Seligman, 2016
Social Media and Well-Being Research:
Limiting Social Media Decreases Loneliness and Depression, Hunt, Marx, Lipson, & Young, 2018
Detecting Depression and Mental Illness on Social Media: An Integrative Review, Guntuku et al., 2017
Predicting Individual Well-Being Through the Language of Social Media, Schwartz et al., 2016
Gaining Insights from Social Media Language: Methodologies and Challenges, Kern et al., 2016
Psychological Language on Twitter Predicts County-Level Heart Disease Mortality, Eichstaedt et al., 2015
Personality, Gender, and Age in the Language of Social Media: The Open-Vocabulary Approach, Schwartz et al., 2013
Optimism Research:
Association between Predeployment Optimism and Onset of Postdeployment Pain in US Army Soldiers, Hassett et al, 2019
Optimism and Physical Health: A Meta-analytic Review, Rasmussen, Scheier & Greenhouse, 2009
Pessimistic Explanatory Style Is a Risk Factor for Physical Illness: A Thirty-Five-Year Longitudinal Study, Peterson & Seligman, 1988
Explanatory Style Change During Cognitive Therapy for Unipolar Depression, Seligman et al., 1988
Explanatory Style as a Predictor of Productivity and Quitting Among Life Insurance Sales Agents, Seligman and Schulman, 1986
Explanatory Style as a Mechanism of Disappointing Athletic Performance, Seligman et al., 1990
Explanatory Style and Academic Performance Among University Freshmen, Peterson & Barrett, 1987
Attributional Style in Depression: A Meta-Analytic Review, Sweeney, Anderson & Bailey, 1986
Learned Helplessness in Children: A Longitudinal Study of Depression, Achievement, and Explanatory Style, Nolen-Hoeksema, Girgus, & Seligman, 1986
Causal Explanations as a Risk Factor for Depression: Theory and Evidence, Peterson & Seligman, 1984
Learned helplessness in Humans: Critique and Reformulation, Abramson, Seligman, & Teasdale, 1978
Learned Helplessness: Theory and Evidence, Maier & Seligman, 1976
Learned Helplessness, Seligman, 1972
Positive Psychology Interventions Research:
Positive Psychology Progress: Empirical Validation of Interventions, Seligman, Steen, Park, & Peterson, 2005
Pursuing Happiness in Everyday Life: The Characteristics and Behaviors of Online Happiness Seekers, Parks et al., 2012
Disseminating Self-Help: Positive Psychology Exercises in an Online Trial, Schueller & Parks, 2012
Building Resilience, Harvard Business Review, Seligman, 2011
Character Strengths Research:
Christopher M. Peterson (Memoriam), Park & Seligman, 2013
Character Strengths Predict Subjective Well-Being During Adolescence, Gillham et al., 2011
Character Strengths: Research and Practice, Park & Peterson, 2009
Strengths of Character, Orientations to Happiness, and Life Satisfaction, Peterson et al., 2007
Character Strengths in Fifty-Four Nations and the Fifty US States, Park, Peterson, & Seligman, 2006
Shared Virtue: The Convergence of Valued Human Strengths Across Culture and History, Dahlsgaard, Peterson, & Seligman, 2005
Strengths of Character and Well-Being, Park, Peterson & Seligman, 2004
Chris Peterson's Unfinished Masterwork: The Real Mental Illnesses, Seligman, 2013
Research on the VIA Institute Website
Positive Emotions Research:
Positive Emotions Broaden and Build, Fredrickson, 2013
Counting Blessings Versus Burdens: An Experimental Investigation of Gratitude and Subjective Well-Being in Daily Life, Emmons & McCullough, 2003
The Grateful Disposition: A Conceptual and Empirical Topography, McCullough & Emmons, 2002
The Psychology of Forgiveness, McCullough & vanOyen Witvliet, 2001
Interpersonal Forgiving in Close Relationships: II. Theoretical Elaboration and Measurement, McCullough et al., 1998
Mindfulness Training Modifies Subsystems of Attention, Jha, Krompinger & Baime, 2007
Witnessing Excellence in Action: The ‘Other-Praising’ Emotions of Elevation, Gratitude, and Admiration, Algoe & Haidt, 2009
The Varieties of Self-Transcendent Experience, Yaden, Haidt, Hood, Vago, and Newberg, 2017
A Four-Factor Model of Perceived Control: Avoiding, Coping, Obtaining, and Savoring, Bryant, 1989
Engagement Research:
Flow Theory and Research, Nakamura & Csikszentmihalyi, 2009
Relationships Research:
Dynamic Spread of Happiness in a Large Social Network: Longitudinal Analysis over 20 Years in the Framingham Heart Study, Fowler & Christakis, 2008
Happiness Can Spread Among People Like a Contagion, Study Indicates, Washington Post, 2008
What Do You Do When Things Go Right? The Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Benefits of Sharing Positive Events, Gable et al., 2004
Meaning Research:
On the Meaning of Work: A Theoretical Integration and Review, Rosso, Dekas & Wrzesniewski, 2010
Crafting a Job: Revisioning Employees as Active Crafters of Their Work, Wrzesniewski & Dutton, 2001
Jobs, Careers, and Callings: People’s Relations to Their Work, Wrzesniewski et al., 1997
The Development of Purpose During Adolescence, Damon, Menon & Bronk, 2003
Achievement Research:
The Science and Practice of Self-Control, Duckworth & Seligman, 2017
Self-Control and Grit: Related but Separable Determinants of Success, Duckworth & Gross, 2014
Grit: Perseverance and Passion for Long-Term Goals, Duckworth et al., 2007
Self-Discipline Outdoes IQ in Predicting Academic Performance of Adolescents, Duckworth & Seligman, 2005
The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance, Ericsson, Krampe & Tesch-Romer, 1993
A Social-Cognitive Approach to Motivation and Personality, Dweck & Leggett, 1988
School-Based Resilience Interventions Research:
Building Resilience, Harvard Business Review, Seligman, 2011
Positive Education Seligman & Adler 2019
Positive Education, Seligman & Adler, 2018
Positive Education: Positive Psychology and Classroom Interventions, Seligman, Ernst, Gillham, Reivich, & Linkins, 2009
Group Prevention of Depression and Anxiety Symptoms, Seligman, Schulman, & Tryon, 2007
The Prevention of Depression and Anxiety, Seligman, Schulman, DeRubeis, & Hollon, 1999
Teaching Well-Being increases Academic Performance: Evidence from Bhutan, Mexico, and Peru, Adler, 2016
Physical Health Following a Cognitive-Behavioral Intervention, Buchanan, Gardenswartz, & Seligman, 1999
School-Based Prevention of Depressive Symptoms: A Randomized Controlled Study of the Effectiveness and Specificity of the Penn Resilience Program, Gillham et al., 2007
Prevention of Depressive Symptoms in School Children: Two Year Follow-Up, Gillham, Reivich, Jaycox, & Seligman, 1995
Prevention of Depressive Symptoms in School Children, Jaycox, Reivich, Gillham, & Seligman, 1994
A Meta-Analytic Review of the Penn Resiliency Program's Effect on Depressive Symptoms, Brunwasser, Gillham, & Kim, 2009
Primal World Beliefs:
Primal World Beliefs, Clifton et al., 2019
Parents Think, Incorrectly, that Teaching their Children the World is a Bad Place is Best for Them, Clifton & Meindl, 2021
Well-Being and the Arts:
Art Museums as Institutions for Human Flourishing, Cotter and Pawelski, 2021
Imagination Research:
Creativity and Aging: What We Can Make with What We Have Left, Seligman, Forgeard, & Kaufman, 2017
Openness/Intellect: The Core of the Creative Personality, Oleynick et al., 2017
How Social-Emotional Imagination Facilitates Deep Learning and Creativity in the Classroom,, Gotlieb, Jahner, Immordino-Yang, & Kaufman, 2017
Cultivating the Social-Emotional Imagination in Gifted Education: Insights from Educational Neuroscience, Gotlieb, Hyde, Immordino-Yang, & Kaufman, 2017
Post-Traumatic Growth Research:
Posttraumatic Growth: Conceptual Foundations and Empirical Evidence, Tedeschi & Calhoun, 2004
Doors Opening: A Mechanism for Growth After Adversity, Roepke & Seligman, 2015
Positive Psychology and Therapy Research:
Positive Psychology in Clinical Practice, Duckworth, Steen, & Seligman, 2005
Positive Psychotherapy, Seligman, Rashid, & Parks, 2006
Positive Health Research:
Positive Health, Seligman, 2008
Positive Health and Health Assets: Re-analysis of Longitudinal Datasets, Seligman et al., 2013
The Person-Event Data Environment: Leveraging Big Data for Studies of Psychological Strengths in Soldiers. Vie, Griffith, Scheier, Lester & Seligman, 2013
The U.S. Army Person-Event Data Environment: A Military-Civilian Big Data Enterprise, Vie et al., 2015
Initial Validation of the U.S. Army Global Assessment Tool, Vie, Scheier, Lester, & Seligman, 2016
Protective Effects of Psychological Strengths Against Psychiatric Disorders Among Soldiers, Shrestha et al., 2018
Association Between Predeployment Optimism and Onset of Postdeployment Pain in US Army Soldiers, Hassett et al., 2019
PTSD: Catastrophizing in Combat as Risk and Protection, Seligman et al., 2019
Comparison of Cardiovascular Health Between US Army and Civilians. Shrestha et al., 2019
Optimism and Risk of Incident Hypertension: A Target for Primordial Prevention, Kubzansky et al., 2020
Development of Character Strengths Across the Deployment Cycle Among U.S. Army Soldiers, Chopik et al., 2020
Happy Soldiers are Highest Performers, Lester et al., 2021
Prospective Psychology:
We Aren't Built to Live in the Moment, Seligman & Tierney, 2017
Navigating into the Future or Driven by the Past, Seligman, Railton, Baumeister, & Sripada, 2013
Depression and Prospection, Roepke & Seligman, 2016