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kfurse

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How old is positive psychology? How long has it been around formally? How old are it's roots?
 
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What effect does gratitude have on one's well-being and what traits is it linked to?
 
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Reply #1 on: Jun 22, 2018
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Behavioral scientists have studied positive topics for at least 100 years. Prior to the relatively recent emergence of positive psychology as an integrated field, social psychologists were studying altruism, sociologists' happiness, and counselors' personality strengths. Former president of the American Psychological Association Martin P. Seligman is credited with organizing and bringing together scholars in the late 1990s into the area he framed as positive psychology.

Western ideas related to today's positive psychology have deep roots. Many of the philosophical underpinnings of these ideas can be traced to the ancient Hebrews and Greeks around 2500 years ago.

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Gratitude involves a feeling of appreciation for something good that another is responsible for bringing about. Those disposed to feel gratitude, like those disposed to forgive, are generally more agreeable, more religious, less neurotic, and less narcissistic. Trait gratitude is an even stronger predictor of well-being and satisfaction with life than any of the Big Five traits.


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