According to the Bolt/Dunn text Martin Seligman (1999) is credited with:

Collins (2001) studied companies that increased their value eight times faster than the stock market and found that they all had:

Successful managers in the workplace according to Lombardo et. al. (1988) have high levels of what psychologists call:

Beverly Fehr (1988) identified which characteristics associated with commitment:

In terms of Optimism and Physical Well Being:

Harker and Keltner’s (2001) longitudinal research on women’s smiles found that authentic [Duchenne] smiles were associated with:

In their research with married couples, B.J. Bushman and colleagues (2014):

Robert Sternberg and Catherine Whitney (1991) note that a successful relationship includes which of the following qualities:

Samantha Heintzelman and Laura King (2014) observe that a meaningful life involves which of the themes below?

Evolutionary psychologists Berscheid (2003) & Buss (2006) observe that social bonds:

Mother Teresa believed that when we have compassion, in reaching out to someone who is badly hurt:

The seven habits of happy people according to pursuit-of-happiness.org include which of the following:

Lopez & Snyder (2009); Csikszentmihalyi & Nakamura (2011); note that Positive Psychology:

According to Aristotle:

Optimism is the tendency to look on the favorable side of things and in general:

In the Bolt/Dunn text Human Freedom involves which of these components:

Which mate preference traits were “most important” for both sexes in a study of thirty-seven cultures conducted by David Buss (1989):

The Bolt/Dunn text notes that a wealth of research suggests that happiness [subjective-well being] is positively correlated with:

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2003) has observed that a meaningful productive life involves which of the following processes?

Sonja Lyubomirsky (2007) conceptualized the factors that influence happiness as three pieces of a pie in what proportions?

According to Drigotas (2002) model, just as Michaelangelo released the ideal form buried in a block of marble, romantic partners can foster each other’s realization of their ideal selves.

Beverly Fehr (1996) summarizes the survey literature defining Friendship as a “voluntary, personal relationship, typically providing intimacy and assistance, in which the two parties like one another and seek each other’s company.”

The significance of the Marshmallow Test conducted by Walter Mischel, Ebbesen & Zeiss in 1972, became apparent with the longitudinal research by Goleman (1995) which found that children who gave in to temptation and impulsively ate the marshmallow immediately at age 4 were more confident, trustworthy and dependable as adolescents.

Both men and women value trust, intimacy and self-disclosure with friends. However, according to Myers (2000a) early in life, females more than males give priority to relationships.

Among the love types that Sternberg (1988) identifies and describes, psychologists have studied romantic and compassionate love the most extensively.

According to Self-Regulation Theory by Carver & Scheier (1981) self-regulation consists of three components: standards, monitoring, and strength.

Both philosophers and psychologists have claimed that empathy is the bedrock of human morality.

Passion, intimacy and commitment are the three components in Sternberg’s (1988) model of love and their various combinations create seven basic types of love relationships.

Forgiveness entails making a deliberate decision to stop feeling resentful about an act or situation or wishing to avenge a wrong done to you by a person or group. While this ability to forgive is laudable, research by McCullough et. al. (2009) on forgiveness suggests that forgiveness is not positively linked with physical health, psychological well-being, or favorable relationship outcomes.

While researchers do not all agree on the amount of gender differences, research does suggest that in comparison with men, women are more likely to express feelings of love and affection, are more likely to self-disclose and are more likely to have closer friendships and show stronger social support (especially emotional support).

Norman Vincent Peale (1982), a success motivation author, encouraged people to “Hold the image of yourself succeeding…Visualize it so vividly that when your desired outcome happens, it seems to be merely echoing a reality that has already existed in your mind.”