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 Martin
E. P. "Marty" Seligman is an American psychologist,
educator, and author. Seligman is a Professor of Psychology
in the University of Pennsylvania. He was elected President
of the American Psychological Association for 1998. Seligman
has written about positive psychology topics such as The Optimistic
Child, Child's Play, Learned Optimism, Authentic Happiness,
and Flourish. Quite recently he came up with new ideas in the
concept of well-being. |
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 Robert
Biswas-Diener is known as "the Indiana Jones of Positive
Psychology". He is a positive psychologist, researcher,
managing director of Positive Acorn, author and an instructor
at Portland State University. Dr.Biswas-Diener's research
focuses on income and happiness, culture and happiness, positive
psychology, strengths and positive psychology coaching. |
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 Christopher
Peterson, was a professor of psychology at the University
of Michigan. He was one of the 100 most cited psychologists
in the world, Science Director of the VIA Institute on Character,
and co-author of Character Strengths and Virtues for the classification
of character strengths. |
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 Mihaly
Csikszentmihalyi is a Hungarian psychology professor. Now
at Claremont Graduate University, he is noted for both his work
in the study of happiness and creativity but is best known as
the architect of the notion of flow and for his years of research
and writing on the topic. He is the author of many books and
over 120 articles or book chapters. He is one of the world's
leading researcher on positive psychology. |
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 Barbara
Lee Fredrickson is an American professor in the department
of psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill. Fredrickson is a social psychologist who conducts research
in emotions and positive psychology. Her main work is related
to her broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions, which
suggests that positive emotions lead to novel, expansive, or
exploratory behavior, and that, over time, these actions lead
to meaningful, long-term resources such as knowledge and social
relationships. She is the author of Positivity, a general-audience
book that draws on her own research and that of other social
scientists. |
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 Edward
Diener is an American psychologist, professor, and author.
He is noted for his research over the past twenty-five years
on happiness- the measurement of well-being; temperament and
personality influences on well-being; theories of well-being;
income and well-being; and cultural influences on well-being.
He is also a senior scientist for the Gallup Organization. |
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 Sonja
Lyubomirsky is a professor in the Department of Psychology
at the University of California, Riverside and author of The
How of Happiness, a book of strategies backed by scientific
research that can be used to increase happiness. |
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 Richard
Layard, Baron Layard is a British economist. He was founder-director
in 1990 of, and is a current programme director at, the Centre
for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics.
Recently, Layard has shifted his attention to the study of what
has since come to be known as happiness economics. This branch
of economic analysis starts from the argument that income is
a bad approximation for happiness. |
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Özge
Koca is a psychologist working in the business world in
Turkey. She has been working with managers at all levels of
the corporate world to develop themselves, their subordinates
and their organisations. She has been interested in Positive
Psychology since 2003 and has been developing projects around
the field in the corporate world.
Dr.
Riza Kadilar,