Positive Psychology

Aleksandra Kostić is Professor of Social Psychology at Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Psychology, University of Niš, Serbia. She teaches courses on Social Perception, Nonverbal Behavior and Psychology of Interpersonal Behavior. Her research interests include examining the accuracy of the social psychology of nonverbal behaviour, social, emotional, and perceptual judgments, especially the judgments of primary emotions from the face, emotional intensity and antecedent-events and reaction to emotion. She is particularly interested in cross-cultural study of facial expression, questions of universal antecedents of the emotions, research on deception and facial clues to deceit.Derek Chadee is Professor of Social Psychology and Director of the ANSA McAL Psychological Research Centre at the University of the West Indies. He is a Fulbright Research Scholar and has published several books in the area of social psychology. He has a robust research agenda on the psychology of fear of crime and has published in several international journals including: Journal of Applied Social Psychology, Psychology of Popular Media Culture British Journal of Criminology, International Victimology, Media and Culture, Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. He has a strong interest in social psychological theories and his second edition of Theories in Social Psychology, Wiley, is forthcoming in 2021.

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• List of Contributors ixAcknowledgment xv1 Embracing Psychology Positively 1Derek Chadee and Aleksandra Kostić2 The Empathy‐Altruism Hypothesis 12C. Daniel Batson3 Positive Creativity 33Robert J. Sternberg4 Science of Well‐Being: Notable Advances 43Jessica Kansky and Ed Diener5 Positive Psychology: Coaching Leadership Tensions 69Ilona Boniwell and Wendy‐Ann Smith6 Positive Cyberpsychology: A Conceptual Framework 85Jolanta Burke7 Earth to Humans: Get with It or Get Out!: Adaptive Intelligence in the Age of Human‐Induced Catastrophes 102Robert J. Sternberg8 Time Perspective and Good Feelings 113Aleksandra Kostić, Derek Chadee, and Marija Pejičić9 Physiological and Epigenetic: Implications of Positive Emotions 129Massimo Agnoletti and Sandro Formica10 Youth Civic Engagement: Exploring Micro and Macro Social Processes 152Laura Wray‐Lake, Burkhard Gniewosz, Celina Benavides,and Sara Wilf11 The Ups and Downs of Love: What Makes Love Go Well, or Badly? 177Robert J. Sternberg12 Flow: A Component of the Good Life 193Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi13 Global Perspectives on Positive Psychological Science 201Stewart I. Donaldson, Saeideh Heshmati, and Scott I. Donaldson14 Self‐Efficacy, Collective Efficacy and Positive Psychology 214Shari Young Kuchenbecker15 Creating and Disseminating Positive Psychology Interventions: Going Viral to Staying Vital 236Everett L. Worthington, Jr.16 From Serbia with Positive Orientation: The Serbian Studies 260Vesna Petrović, Dragan Žuljević, and Gian Vittorio CapraraIndex 292