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Notes for Gratitude Talk – with 3 Gratitude Exercises
Thanksgiving seems like a good time to share the handout that I used for a recent talk on gratitude. Gratitude through the Lens of Positive Psychology Positive Psychology is the rigorous study of what...
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Growth Mindsets and Marriage
A friend asked me what positive psychology can tell us about marriage. When I went digging around through my notes and books, one of the things I found was Carol Dweck’s chapter, Relationships:...
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A discipline for finding the positive: Writers’ workshops
Thinking about disciplines that help people see and express the positive made me think of Richard Gabriel’s book, Writers’ workshops & the work of making things: Patterns, poetry, and … . The book...
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Effective Positive Feedback
I’m finding it relatively easy to remember the three qualities of appropriate negative feedback: Specific to a situation Not personal Offers suggestions for improvement. What about positive feedback?...
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Motivation and Self-determination Theory
This is the first part of a two-part series. Part 2 is called Steps Toward Intrinsic Motivation. A friend of mine sees that the success of her work depends on actions taken by others — specifically...
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Self-efficacy
Albert Bandura has an article about self-efficacy that I have read over and over again. I’ll summarize my own take-aways from it with the hopes that you’ll be interested enough to go see what he REALLY...
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Steps toward Intrinsic Motivation
This posting is a continuation of an earlier posting on intrinsic motivation. In Ryan and Deci’s paper, Figure 1, the Self-Determination Continuum, presents a very useful model of different sorts of...
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Savoring an early summer day
Savoring is a set of skills that can be learned in order to increase the positive emotion we experience in our day-to-day existences. Psychologists Fred Bryant and Joseph Veroff published a book last...
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Podcast – An Interview about Applied Positive Psychology
Karel Vredenburg has been collecting a set of podcasts called, Life Habits: Learn habits to optimize your life and stay sane in this crazy world. Most of the podcasts are Karel himself talking about...
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