A psychology of human strengths : fundamental questions and future directions for a positive psychology / edited by Lisa G. Aspinwall and Ursula M. Staudinger.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ch. 1. A Psychology of Human Strengths: Some Central Issues of an Emerging Field / Lisa G. Aspinwall and Ursula M. Staudinger -- Ch. 2. Human Strengths as the Orchestration of Wisdom and Selective Optimization With Compensation / Paul B. Baltes and Alexandra M. Freund -- Ch. 3. The Human's Greatest Strength: Other Humans / Ellen Berscheid -- Ch. 4. Constructive Cognition, Personal Goals, and the Social Embedding of Personality / Nancy Cantor -- Ch. 5. A Conception of Personality for a Psychology of Human Strengths: Personality as an Agentic, Self-Regulating System / Gian Vittorio Caprara and Daniel Cervone -- Ch. 6. Human Aging: Why Is Even Good News Taken as Bad? / Laura L. Carstensen and Susan T. Charles -- Ch. 7. Three Human Strengths / Charles S. Carver and Michael F. Scheier -- Ch. 8. The Malleability of Sex Differences in Response to Changing Social Roles / Alice H. Eagly and Amanda B. Diekman -- Ch. 9. Toward a Positive Psychology: Social Developmental and Cultural Contributions / Nancy Eisenberg and Vivian Ota Wang -- Ch. 10. Light and Dark in the Psychology of Human Strengths: The Example of Psychogerontology / Rocio Fernandez-Ballesteros -- Ch. 11. Intervention as a Major Tool of a Psychology of Human Strengths: Examples From Organizational Change and Innovation / Dieter Frey, Eva Jonas and Tobias Greitemeyer -- Ch. 12. Judgmental Heuristics: Human Strengths or Human Weaknesses? / Dale Griffin and Daniel Kahneman -- Ch. 13. Positive Affect as a Source of Human Strength / Alice M. Isen -- Ch. 14. The Parametric Unimodel of Human Judgment: A Fanfare to the Common Thinker / Arie W. Kruglanski, Hans-Peter Erb, Scott Spiegel and Antonio Pierro -- Ch. 15. Turning Adversity to Advantage: On the Virtues of the Coactivation of Positive and Negative Emotions / Jeff T. Larsen, Scott H. Hemenover, Catherine J. Norris and John T. Cacioppo -- Ch. 16. A Holistic Person Approach for Research on Positive Development / David Magnusson and Joseph L. Mahoney -- Ch. 17. Harnessing Willpower and Socioemotional Intelligence to Enhance Human Agency and Potential / Walter Mischel and Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton -- Ch. 18. The Motivational Sources of Creativity as Viewed From the Paradigm of Positive Psychology / Jeanne Nakamura and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi -- Ch. 19. Ironies of the Human Condition: Well-Being and Health on the Way to Mortality / Carol D. Ryff and Burton Singer -- Ch. 20. Political Symbols and Collective Moral Action / David O. Sears -- Ch. 21. Positive Clinical Psychology / Martin E. P. Seligman and Christopher Peterson -- Ch. 22. Driven to Despair: Why We Need to Redefine the Concept and Measurement of Intelligence / Robert J. Sternberg -- Ch. 23. The Ecology of Human Strengths / Daniel Stokols.

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