Optimism Psychology is a call to excellence for practitioners, coaches, clinicians, researchers, patients, clients, and the world. OP is preceded by humanistic psychology and positive psychology. It is, in a sense, a third wave. OP holds that the field of psychology is still emerging and much of the research is suggestive, not conclusive. And often what is called suggestive is actually …
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The Primacy of Emotion: Thinking Big About Feelings
Sitting in the back of a class called Personality and Behavior Change, I was chatting with my classmate who was a professional in Human Resources at a large corporation in Manhattan. I can't remember the context of the conversation, but I remember I told him, "I love emotions." "Really?" he said, incredulously, with a light netting of fear across his face. "Yeah, why?" I said. "Most …
