Positive Psychology

Intellectual humility and religious tolerance

The present study explored the relationship between (a) intellectual humility toward religious beliefs and values and (b) religious tolerance. Pastors who identified as Christian (N  =  196) completed measures of conservatism, religious commitment, intellectual humility toward religious beliefs and values, and religious tolerance....

Intellectual humility and prosocial values: Direct and mediated effects

Research has established links between humility and prosocial outcomes. This study examined, with self-report data, whether humility with regard to one’s knowledge would be predictive of prosocial values....

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The psychological significance of humility

Humility is a virtue with a rich and varied past. Its benefits and pitfalls – indeed, its status as a virtue – have been debated by philosophers and theologians. Recently, psychologists have entered into the dialectic, with a small but growing body of empirical research at their disposal....

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Intellectual humility

Introduction

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Webinar: Gretchen Rubin’s Four Tendencies: A Framework for Better Living

In this webinar, Gretchen discusses how using the “Four Tendencies” framework can help us understand how to manage ourselves better – and how to help other people to manage themselves better....

Playfulness in adults: an examination of play and playfulness and their implications for coaching

Play and playfulness have been seminal to human culture for millennia. Twentieth-century scientific enquiry was largely concerned with their evolutionary benefits, though humanistic psychology, and later positive psychology came to view them as attached to greater human values and meaning creation....

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Connecting coaching and positive organisational psychology research

I recently attended the ANZAM conference in Brisbane where two issues caught my attention. Firstly, there was almost no mention of coaching across the hundreds of presentations and symposia (more on that later).The second issue was an illuminating keynote by Prof....

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Organize Your Emotions, Optimize Your Life

This book offers a new model for decoding and organizing one’s emotions, improving equanimity, and getting closer to thriving....

2017 July Coaching Report

Coaching the Multiplicity of Mind...

Scientists Making a Difference: One Hundred Eminent Behavioral and Brain Scientists Talk about their Most Important Contributions

Scientists Making a Difference is a fascinating collection of first-person narratives from the top psychological scientists of the modern era....

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