2006 Gallup Positive Psychology Summit
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** He plays "cheezy" music before classes to prime certain thoughts and students actually come early to hear what he plays. | ** He plays "cheezy" music before classes to prime certain thoughts and students actually come early to hear what he plays. | ||
** He told a story about Roger Bannister and the 4 minute mile which used to be considered an impossible barrier to breach. Nobody believed that it was possible until Roger Bannister ran under 4 minutes. As soon as it was proven to be possible, numerous other runners broke the 4 minute mile barrier. Why did all these people break the barrier at the same time? The power of belief! As long as they believed they couldn't break 4 minutes, it was a self-fulfillling prophecy. | ** He told a story about Roger Bannister and the 4 minute mile which used to be considered an impossible barrier to breach. Nobody believed that it was possible until Roger Bannister ran under 4 minutes. As soon as it was proven to be possible, numerous other runners broke the 4 minute mile barrier. Why did all these people break the barrier at the same time? The power of belief! As long as they believed they couldn't break 4 minutes, it was a self-fulfillling prophecy. | ||
| - | ** All stories are backed by research. On belief, he tells of an experiment (cit?) where | + | ** All stories are backed by research. On belief, he tells of an experiment ([[Rosenthal & Jacobsen, 1968]]) where teachers were told that some students were 'spurters' who would learn faster than others. This expectation became self-fulfilling as the randomly chosed spurters gained faster than the other kids. He also told of an experiment by Langer (cit?) where older people who experienced a week pretending to be 20 years in the past ended up having better memory, improved health, and general characteristics of youth. |
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Revision as of 19:40, 8 October 2006
This page is for notes from the 2006 Positive Psychology Summit held at the Gallup Building in Washington DC. These notes are the reconstructed and filtered opinions of attendees and as such, do not represent any official record or official viewpoint of any of the presenters. No attendee could reasonably attend every session or write down every wonderful detail as well, so please excuse the incompleteness. Still, in the spirit of positive psychology, it is hoped that these notes prove useful to positive psychology researchers.
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Workshop: Teaching Positive Psychology - Tal Ben-Shahar
- Bring Psychology research to the masses
- It is important to cater to the "click generation" by using art, music, quotes, humor, & stories
- He plays "cheezy" music before classes to prime certain thoughts and students actually come early to hear what he plays.
- He told a story about Roger Bannister and the 4 minute mile which used to be considered an impossible barrier to breach. Nobody believed that it was possible until Roger Bannister ran under 4 minutes. As soon as it was proven to be possible, numerous other runners broke the 4 minute mile barrier. Why did all these people break the barrier at the same time? The power of belief! As long as they believed they couldn't break 4 minutes, it was a self-fulfillling prophecy.
- All stories are backed by research. On belief, he tells of an experiment ((Rosenthal & Jacobsen, 1968)) where teachers were told that some students were 'spurters' who would learn faster than others. This expectation became self-fulfilling as the randomly chosed spurters gained faster than the other kids. He also told of an experiment by Langer (cit?) where older people who experienced a week pretending to be 20 years in the past ended up having better memory, improved health, and general characteristics of youth.
Make things personal
This is a class I wanted to take as an undergrad...people can tell when you are talking from the inside...share your own experiences.
Permission to be human....him in cafeteria...does experience lows and highs....only dead and psychopaths not...baby video going from laughing to crying...rogers humanism...ironic processing, wegner.....do not think of pink elephant...do not be anxious....I will not accept gravity. Great deception as people don't admit how they are doing...AA niebuhr quote on changing things .....
Self acceptance of emotions meditation....davidson and kabatzin mindfulness research...shelly taylor vizualization
Action AND reflection Class needs to be experiential...ie gratitude exercise. Reflactive learning.. Markus howard king 1993
Habit charts...edwin locke..goal setting...baumeister 1998....radish and chocolate..limited resource of dicipline should not be wasted. Psychology of full engagement book....how many people put effort into brushing your teeth every morning?...make habits and habits make us....
Authentic = authority...
Operate on strengths...go from 10 to 40 than from 0 to 10 easier use teaching strengths...what's more important to work on? 75% weaknesses over strengths.
Prepare prepare prepare then improv
Role model...people do what you do, not what you say....cheek not chin exercise
Marva collins way
All materials online...www.fas.harvard.edu/ tilda psy1504
Add humility to psychwiki...
Optimism vs optimism induction in network analysis scheier
Gallup world poll Ranking millenium development goals in various countries for individuals...ie health vs education vs technology...ugandan boreholes unused by women....social time
John mccarthur at un milenium project & earth institute at columbia university
Optimism in africa is inversely correlated with income and education...opposite the west...carol ? U MD www.afrobarometer.org
Well being index..
Creativeclass.org email him about curiosity and bohemia? Florida@gmu.edu
Frederickson....change in mindfulness scale...broaden hypothesis seeing big picture...pick out races better in neg mood
Www.bath.ac.uk/whoqol
Steger...meaning in life scale....emmons personal striving scale...forward him meaning data from liferank? Michael_f_steger@yahoo.com....michael.f.steger.googlepages.com/home carol rif and beaker meaning in geriatric patients?
Mapp program...
Thought experiment. Genie with cape color Giving positive psychology away...living independently for elders...email to ask about it?
Gable & dweck think about good things as deeply as bad....converse about bad longer Leverage strengths (peterson)
Thegreenberggroup.org strengths and engaged moments of employees....enthusiastic sponsor
Positive and negative explanatory styles in lawyers...neg predicts success...instrinsic to extrinsic motivation david shearon high depression rates.
Flourishingschools.org workshops to bring out the best in teachers 5 parts over 3 days Via strengths. Exercising to build positive emotions Hope and appreciative inquiry to create plans Presented positive psych data
Leadership....pollay?
Pennpositivepsych.org
Daniel kahneman....remembered self vs experiencing self leads to interest in time use...easier to control. How do you feel right now? Day reconstruction...difmax happy minus max tense, angry, depress? U index how often neg 18% amer women...21 on wwekday 14 weekend...top 10% account for 40% In columbus and france Similar results....low energy...sleep quality...affective disposition Engaged leisure eatinf talking passive leisure. Home compulsory work commute American women less happy in childcare...much more with children...better social...pet almost as good as friend...us better working...french better eating...frnch advantage by having vacations....
Life factors impact life sat...not experienced
Cost benefit of mates.....married less alone...more w fam less w friends more compulsory home tasks less discretionary activities....people who are rich work a lot and don't like it much more
2 dimensions of happiness.....pleasure and arousal....satisfied equals aroused but tense
Improving time use in addition to attention
Tal ben shahr....mindfulness to process gratitude deeper
Peterson strengths....age eq more religious. Less humor...married eq more forgive
Content analysis of talk about child Youth most love, kind. Creative, humor, curious Less authentic, grateful, modest, forgiving, open minded
Gratitude comes at 7 related happ Maintaining curiosity leads to happiness in adults...all children are this way Positive outcomes Military eq love Teacher eq zest humor academic kids contr iq eq persevere love, grat Happy kids eq love, hope, zest, grat Parenting....parent self control eq child hap
Faith hope and love up after 9 11
Use signature strengths in novel ways less depr and more happy
Tradeoff graph....heart mind....self other
Flow
Focused attention Less self conscious Action and awareness merge Freedom from work about failure Forget about time Experience is its own reward auto telic
Conditions Clear goals at every step Immediate feedback to actions Balance between challenge and skill else anxiety or boredom
Talk about buildings in denmark and getty center Examples like poet, chess
Fast company article on flow
Lyubomirsky
3 sets of data on happiness effects
Haidt ancient wisdom Rider driver vs elephant Flourishing class Train elephant Change elephant surrounding Understand rider elephant relationship
We are moralistic hypocrites...accurate of others...blind to self Naive realism Motivated reasoning search for evidence on side we want to suppport Manacheism bush bin laden vs samsara Foundations of morals 5 groups Harm fairness ingroup authority purity
sacred victim vs Sacred system Liberals use victim...conserv use all 5 Diversity and mobility lead to thin morality
Happiness hypothesis... From outside getting what you want or from within...auth hap goos work,love and strengths in service of others... Ultrasociality bees wasps ants termites moles and us Slider switch of altruism Good leader makes good hive Happiness comes from between relationships
Res competitions on pos energy and place oct 4-6 2006...mysore conference?
