Toward a More Positive Psychology

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Toward a More Positive Psychology: "Toward a More Positive Psychology During its first century, psychology understandably focused much of its attention on understanding and alleviating negative states. We have studied abuse and anxiety, depression and disease, prejudice and poverty. As Chapter 13 noted, articles on selected negative emotions since 1887 have outnumbered those on positive emotions by 13 to 1. In ages past, notes 1998 American Psychological Association president Martin Seligman (2002), times of relative peace and prosperity have enabled cultures to turn their attention from repairing weakness and damage to promoting 'the highest qualities of life.' Prosperous fifth-century Athens nurtured philosophy and democracy. Flourishing fifteenth-century Florence nurtured great art. Victorian England, flush with the bounty of the British empire, nurtured honor, discipline, and duty. As we build the new millennium, Seligman believes that thriving Western cultures have a parallel opportunity to create, as a 'humane, scientific monument,' a more positive psychology—a psychology concerned not only with weakness and damage but also with strength and virtue."