Readings and Videos on Positive Psychology
Selected Press Coverage
January 17, 2005, Time Magazine, The Science of Happiness (Cover Story & Special Issue)
April 30, 2006, BBC, The Science of Happiness (Six-Part TV Series on Happiness)
October 2, 2005, The Sunday Times Magazine, So what do you have to do to find happiness?
Some Positive Psychology Overview Articles
Positive Psychology: An Introduction, Seligman & Csikszentmihalyi, 2000
Positive Psychology Progress: Empirical Validation of Interventions, Seligman, Steen, Park, & Peterson, 2005
What (and Why) Is Positive Psychology?, Gable and Haidt, 2005
A Balanced Psychology and a Full Life, Seligman, Parks, & Steen, 2004
Positive Psychology in Clinical Practice, Duckworth, Steen, & Seligman, 2005
Positive Psychotherapy, Seligman, Rashid, & Parks, 2006
Videos on Positive Psychology
Online Interviews with Positive Psychology Scholars
Downloadable Interviews with Positive Psychology Scholars at ISQOLS Website (Click on Oral History)
In-Depth DVD Interviews of Positive Psychology Scholars at Gallup Website
PBS DVD: : Introducing Positive Psychology: Signature Strengths, Flow, and Aging Well; Personal Well-Being, Social Support, Health, and Aging Well. Contact:jackie_harrison@montanapbs.org or chris_seifert@montanapbs.org
Gallup DVD: How to be Happy, with Ed Diener. Contact Sheila Kearney at sheila_kearney@gallup.com
Some Positive Psychology Handbooks and Textbooks
Character Strengths and Virtues: A Handbook and Classification, by Christopher Peterson & Martin E.P. Seligman
Handbook of Positive Psychology, by C. R. Snyder and Shane J. Lopez
A Primer in Positive Psychology, by Christopher Peterson (Textbook)
Some Positive Psychology Books
Aging Well: Surprising Guideposts to a Happier Life from the Landmark Harvard Study of Adult Development, by George E. Vaillant
Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment, by Martin E.P. Seligman
Feeling Good: The Science of Well Being, by C. Robert Cloninger
Flourishing: Positive Psychology and the Life Well-Lived, Edited by Corey L.M. Keyes and Jonathan Haidt
Flow: the Psychology of Optimal Experience, by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning,by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Handbook of Multimethod Measurement in Psychology, Editors: Ed Diener and Michael Eid
Happiness: A History, by Darrin M. McMahon
Happiness: Lessons from a New Science, by Richard Layard
The Happiness Hypothesis, by Jonathan Haidt
Happiness: What Studies on Twins Show Us about Nature, Nurture, and the Happiness Set Point, by David T. Lykken
Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950,by Charles Murray
Introduction to Positive Psychology, William Compton
Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life, by Martin E.P. Seligman
Optimal Human Being: An Integrated Multi-Level Perspective, by Kennon M. Sheldon
The Optimistic Child, by Martin E. P. Seligman, Karen Reivich, Lisa Jaycox, & Jane Gillham
Oxford Handbook of Methods in Positive Psychology (Series in Positive Psychology), by Anthony Ong & Manfred Van Dulmen
The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less,by Barry Schwartz
Positive Psychology in Practice, Edited by P. Alex Linley and Stephen Joseph
Positive Therapy, by Stephen Joseph and P. Alex Linley
Positive Psychology: The Scientific and Practical Explorations of Human Strengths, by C.R. Snyder and Shane J. Lopez
The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse, by Gregg Easterbrook
The Psychology of Happiness, by Michael Argyle
A Psychology of Human Strengths, Edited by Lisa G. Aspinwall and Ursula M. Staudinger
Pursuing Human Strengths: A Positive Psychology Guide, by Martin Bolt
Pursuit of Happiness, by David G. Myers
Quality of Life Therapy: Applying a Life Satisfaction Approach to Positive Psychology and Cognitive Therapy, by Michael B. Frisch
The Resilience Factor: 7 Essential..., by Karen Reivich and Andrew Shatté
Savoring: A New Model of Positive Experience, by Fred B. Bryant and Joseph Veroff
The Science of Well-Being, by Felicia Huppert, Nick Baylis, and Barry Keverne
Stumbling on Happiness, by Dan Gilbert
Journals
Articles, Columns and Book Chapters by Martin Seligman
Links to APA Monitor Presidential Columns by Dr. Martin E.P. Seligman:
Building Human Strength: Psychology’s Forgotten Mission (1/98)
Positive Social Science (4/98)
The Effectiveness of Therapy (5/98)
Striking a Healthy Balance in Ethics (6/98)
The American Way of Blame (7/98)
Is Depression Biochemical? (9/98)
What is the Good Life? (10/98)
The Gifted and the Extraordinary (11/98)
The President's Address (8/99), in the APA 1998 Annual Report
Other Readings in Positive Psychology
Journal of Humanistic Psychology, Special Issue on Positive Psychology (Winter, 2001) Table of Contents
Positive Psychology, Positive Prevention, and Positive Therapy, Book Chapter by Dr. Martin E.P. Seligman
Positive Clinical Psychology, Book Chapter by Martin E.P. Seligman and Christopher Peterson
Video: Martin E.P. Seligman Lecture on Positive Psychology (after 5 minute intro), September 5, 2001, University of Pennsylvania
NOTE: This video can only be seen by those at the University of Pennsylvania
Positive Psychology Network Concept Paper, Appendix, Bibliography