Word: shaharã
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Dates: during 2006-2006
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...including producing a newsletter, organizing seminars on positive psychology, and “healthy, positive activities where people get to know each other and have fun” such as pajama parties, according to Siner. The enthusiastic response to the group is building off of the popularity of Ben-Shahar??s popular Positive Psychology class, which drew 842 students this semester, the most of any College course. Siner said that Ben-Shahar encouraged him to start the group. Even though the course will not be taught next year, Siner said the group will continue to attract students...
Psychology Chair Stephen M. Kosslyn said he was optimistic about the future of Ben-Shahar??s book...
...self-publish at the beginning of a career,” Kosslyn wrote in an e-mail. “However, if the work is solid, it will survive peer-review, and eventually be published elsewhere. I believe this is what the future has in store for Professor Ben-Shahar??s work...
...former “Positive Psychology” student, Sepah said this fit with Ben-Shahar??s references to University of Michigan psychologist Barbara L. Fredrickson’s research that positive emotions strengthen personal resources, increasing chances of success...
...approached his students. “Phil sought to uncover those places where people felt most deeply active and alive,” he said. Former student and current “Positive Psychology” teaching fellow Patricia Hernandez ’04 echoed Ben-Shahar??s sentiments. Hernandez recalled how her first course with Stone changed her entire outlook on life at the College. “He made me realize that by running, by hiding, by pushing...I wasn’t going to be a leader,” she said...