The science of the good life, huh? Sorry this is not about booze, sex and rock n'roll (or whatever is en vogue right now). In fact we talk about a lot of things that tree huggers would love: appreciation of beauty, gratitude, positive emotions, relationships and well, love. However we, that is positive psychologists and positive psychology practitioners buried ourselves in books, set out to experiment and then write it all up in a writing style that is about as exciting to read as watching an avocado turn brown. And that's the problem: if you are not an academic you probably want a little bit more excitement, than pages and pages of densely written journals can provide. Even if you are an academic, who has time to read all the interesting stuff out there anyways? So in an effort to save your eyes taking on a comically rectangular shape the positive psychology podcast brings the science of the good life to your earbuds. It's not all treehugger style though; sometimes we might get quite serious, for example when exploring things like post-traumatic growth or positive parenting...
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 2 days 23 hours 57 minutes
008 - The Positive Psychology Podcast - Passion with Susanna Halonen
Learn why the search for passion is over. Susanna explains the 5 components of a passionate life.
007 - The Positive Psychology Podcast - Zurich Film Festival Special
In the last episode Ryan Niemiec mentioned how movies can help us develop our character strengths. This week we will talk about how seeing 14 movies in 8 days gave me ample opportunity not just to watch out for strengths but see other positive...
006 - Ryan Niemiec on Strengths - The Positive Psychology Podcast
Ryan Niemiec will be our guest in this episode of the Positive Psychology Podcast. He is a psychologist, coach and author who works on advancing the science and practice of strengths at the VIA Institute. We will talk about what strengths are, what to...
005 - Acacia Parks on Positive Interventions - The Positive Psychology Podcast
Acacia Parks discusses positive interventions. What are they? What works best and what can go wrong? How are positive interventions brought to the public? And how could a listener get started? For more episodes check out...
004 - Lea Waters on Positive Education - The Positive Psychology Podcast
Lea Waters, a positive education expert from the University of Melbourne will talk about why positive education is important, how wellbeing and performance are linked and what teachers interested in positive education can do to get started. For more...
003 - Positive Emotions - The Positive Psychology Podcast
Today we are going to talk about positive emotions. We will cover why one big misunderstanding makes people question the legitimacy of positive psychology what positive emotions are good for emotional contagion how positive emotions affect...
002 - Strengths - The Positive Psychology Podcast
Bringing the Science of the Good Life to your Earbuds
001- Introduction - The Positive Psychology Podcast
Bringing the Science of the Good Life to your Earbuds