Jonathan Haidt — The Psychology of Self-Righteousness
On Being with Krista Tippett
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Positive Psychology, the Study of Human Flourishing
Psychology has tended to be a very negative field in that it's especially focused on problems. Martin Seligman said when he was president of the American Psychological Association, well, what about the positive side of life? So we should be having psychologists doing research on thepositive side of life. And I started doing research because I study morality and how it's based on the emotions. It felt to me as though there's such an emotion, but there wasn't a word for it yet.
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