Positive psychology explores what enables individuals and societies to flourish. It examines how people can cultivate happiness, strength, and resilience, and ultimately live a fulfilling ...

Unlike traditional psychology that focuses more on the causes and symptoms of mental illnesses and emotional disturbances, positive psychology emphasizes traits, thought patterns, behaviors ...

The Positive Psychology class was created and taught by Jennifer Sepetys, who has been a teacher for over 18 years and at ...

They are a central focus of positive psychology, which emphasizes the study of what makes life worth living and how individuals can thrive. Recent research has explored the connections between ...

Making America healthier and making the world healthier are not mutually exclusive goals,’ writes Simon Williams.

Researchers Trystan Loustau and Liane Young explore how autism can buffer against the negative impact of social comparisons.

Welcome to Psychology at CMU. With nearly 30 award-winning faculty and almost 150 people in total, we are a vibrant community whose research continues our department’s 100-year tradition of studying ...

The studies suggested that doing one small act of kindness for someone else every day for as little as 10 days could make ...

As fires have raged, so have citations of the prescient author Mike Davis. But in a changed world, we need new thinkers too.

Jan. 22, 2025 — Thermal sensations are consciously differentiated as hot or cold by the brain; however, the neural mechanism that enables this differentiation is not well understood. To address ...

For Kevin Lopez, everything is on the line. Experts share how shifting from self-focused goals to thinking about others can have a positive impact on the year ahead. A new study is “a bit of a ...