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• About the Author
• Acknowledgements
• How to Use This Book
• Part I Introduction
• 1 Describing the Science of Positive Psychology
• Introduction
• Defining positive psychology
• Ways of understanding ‘positive’
• Assessing positivity
• Positive psychology in context
• Methodological approaches
• Summing up
• Part II Happiness and Positive States
• 2 Positive Emotions
• Introduction
• Defining emotions and other affective states
• Broaden and build model of positive emotions
• Summing up
• 3 Happiness
• Introduction
• What is happiness?
• Who is happy, and where does happiness come from?
• Happiness around the world
• A few lingering questions
• Summing up
• Part III Personality Processes
• 4 Personality
• Introduction
• Personality: The big picture
• Personality at the middle level: Describing the differences
• Positive psychology’s personality unit: Character strengths
• Summing up
• 5 The Self
• Introduction
• Defining the self
• The true self and authenticity
• Meaning in life
• Self-views: -efficacy, -esteem, and -compassion
• Cultural cautions about the self-concept
• Summing up
• 6 Thinking
• Introduction
• Creativity
• Wisdom
• Intelligence, ability, and achievement
• Predicting the future: Affective forecasting
• Summing up
• Part IV Social, Psychological, and Physical Environments
• 7 Social and Physical Environments
• Introduction
• Social environments: Human nature and cooperation
• Physical environments: Natural and built
• Summing up
• 8 Close Relationships
• Introduction
• What is love?
• How do people create satisfying relationships?
• Distinguishing positive processes in relationships
• Summing up
• Part V Towards Increasing Positivity
• 9 Stability and Change
• Introduction
• Resilience
• Post-traumatic growth
• Intentional positive change and interventions
• Summing up
• 10 Looking Forward
• Introduction
• Goals: Looking ahead to your positive future
• Positive psychology: Taking stock of the science
• The ongoing contributions of positive psychology and looking forward
• Summing up
• Glossary
• References
• Index