Scientific Pollyannaism

From Inquisition to Positive Psychology

AvOksana Yakushko

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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This book argues that the story of the orphan girl Pollyanna (namely, her strategy of playing the “glad games” to manage loss, abuse, and social prejudice) serves as a framework for critiquing historical forms of Western scientific Pollyannaism.

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Utgivningsdatum:2020-08-14
Mått:148 x 210 x 14 mm
Vikt:331 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:241
Förlag:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN:9783030159849

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Oksana Yakushko, PhD, is Department Chair and faculty member at Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, CA, USA.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1: An Introduction to (Supposedly) Good Life.- Chapter 2: Demonized Emotions and Tortured Bodies in the Age of Scientific Progress.- Chapter 3: The Survival of the Happiest Who (Get To) Control the Resources and Procreation.- Chapter 4: Eugenic Scientific Utopias Filled with Socially Engineered Happy Productive People.- Chapter 5: From the Science of Human Betterment to the Science of Behavioral Control.- Chapter 6: Scientific Pollyannaism of Authentic Happiness, Learned Optimism, Flow and the Empirically Correct Positivity Ratios.- Chapter 7: On Being Pollyanna about Sciences.- The Discovery of Scientism.- Chapter 8: Critics and Critiques of Scientific Pollyannaism.- Chapter 9: Re-telling the Story of Orphaned Girl Named Pollyanna.