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Title: A psychology of human strengths: Fundamental questions and future directions for a positive psychology. Author(s): Aspinwall, Lisa G., (Ed), Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, US. Staudinger, Ursula M., (Ed), Department of Psychology IV, Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany. Publisher Washington, DC, US: American Psychological Association, 2003. xvi, 369 pp. Information: ISBN: 1-55798-931-1 Link to this http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=pzh&jid=200304757&site=ehostPublication: live Publication Edited Book Type: Subjects: Positive Psychology Language: English Abstract: In A Psychology of Human Strengths: Fundamental Questions and Future Directions for a Positive Psychology, leading scholars of contemporary psychology set a research agenda for the scientific study of human strengths. Aspinwall and Staudinger feature contributors who bring both supportive and challenging voices to this emerging field to stimulate discourse. In many cases, their findings have turned "established wisdom" on its head. What results is a comprehensive book that provides a forward-looking forum for the discussion of the purpose, pitfalls, and future of the psychology of human strengths. This volume offers commentary on positive psychology and its antecedents. It is a must-read for those looking for new ways of thinking about such topics as intelligence, judgment, volition, social behavior, close relationships, development, aging, and health as well as applications to psychotherapy, education, organizational psychology, gender, politics, creativity, and other realms of life. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved) Table of Contents: Contributors Preface Introduction A psychology of human strengths: Some central issues of an emerging field Lisa G. Aspinwall and Ursula M. Staudinger / 9-22 Human strengths as the orchestration of wisdom and selective optimization with compensation Paul B. Baltes and Alexandra M. Freund / 23-35 The human's greatest strength: Other humans Ellen Berscheid / 37-47 Constructive cognition, personal goals, and the social embedding of personality Nancy Cantor / 49-60 A conception of personality for a psychology of human strengths: Personality as an agentic, self-regulating system Gian Vittorio Caprara and Daniel Cervone / 61-74 Human aging: Why is even good news taken as bad? Laura L. Carstensen and Susan T. Charles / 75-86 Three human strengths Charles S. Carver and Michael F. Scheier / 87-102 The malleability of sex differences in response to changing social roles Alice H. Eagly and Amanda B. Diekman / 103-115 Toward a positive psychology: Social developmental and cultural contributions Nancy Eisenberg and Vivian Ota Wang / 117-129 Light and dark in the psychology of human strengths: The example of psychogerontology Rocío Fernández-Ballesteros / 131-147 Intervention as a major tool of a psychology of human strengths: Examples from organizational change and innovation Dieter Frey, Eva Jonas and Tobias Greitemeyer / 149-164 Judgmental heuristics: Human strengths or human weaknesses? Dale Griffin and Daniel Kahneman / 165-178 Positive affect as a source of human strength Alice M. Isen / 179-195 The parametric unimodel of human judgment: A fanfare to the common thinker Arie W. Kruglanski, Hans-Peter Erb, Scott Spiegel and Antonio Pierro / 197-210 Turning adversity to advantage: On the virtues of the coactivation of positive and negative emotions Jeff T. Larsen, Scott H. Hemenover, Catherine J. Norris and John T. Cacioppo / 211225 A holistic person approach for research on positive development David Magnusson and Joseph L. Mahoney / 227-243 Harnessing willpower and socioemotional intelligence to enhance human agency and potential Walter Mischel and Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton / 245-256 The motivational sources of creativity as vie