An Agentic Perspective on Positive Psychology
{Bandura, 2008. An Agentic Perspective on Positive Psychology. In Lopez (Ed). Positive Psychology: Exploring the Best in People (Vol. 1) Discovering Human Strengths} Personal Mini-Experiments:…
Category Positive Living
Core Self-Evaluations
{Judge & Hurst, 2007. The Benefits and Possible Costs of Positive Core Self-Evaluations: A Review and Agenda for Future Research. In Nelson & Cooper (Eds.).…
Short Descriptions of Character Strengths and Virtues
The VIA Classification of Character Strengths: Six Virtues and 24 Character Strengths Wisdom and Knowledge – cognitive strengths that entail acquiring and using knowledge. {Magician…
Character Strengths: A Primer
Opening Words The use of signature strengths at work and in life generally is assumed to facilitate wellbeing and performance. The assumption is based on…
Enhancing capacities, enriching self and life
One of the main aspects of positive capacities is the possibility of actualizing, enhancing, developing, and utilizing them. Capacities are malleable states, which are the…
Positive Psychological Capacities and Growth
Goal-Directed Behavior, Performance, Outcome Actualizing goal-directed behavior becomes performance and outcome. By applying a time and space frame to behavior, we observe performance. Performance is…