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His attention turned towards politics, psychology, and philosophy. He loved Ayn Rand. He even founded the Harvard Objectivist Club.
“At the risk of sounding cliché,” Perrotti says, “Tal really walks the talk. He’s a model of positive psychology.”
As a sophomore, he took a class with Professor of Psychology Philip J. Stone, and became interested in the study of organizational behavior. He continued working with Stone, a lifelong mentor who tragically passed away three weeks ago at the age of 69.
Positive psychology, meanwhile, was just starting to gather steam as a distinct field within psychology. Back in the 1950s and ’60s, pioneers like Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers had decided that the positive side of human nature was under-represented in psychology, and they wanted to turn...
From its ashes rose modern Positive Psychology, and by the time Ben-Shahar received his A.B. in 1996, he had decided to shelve his squash racket for good and to devote himself entirely to studying the burgeoning field.