Scientific Pollyannaism From Inquisition to Positive Psychology /

Dades bibliogràfiques
Autor principal: Yakushko, Oksana (Autor)
Autor corporatiu: SpringerLink (Online service)
Sumari:IX, 241 p. 1 illus.
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Idioma:anglès
Publicat: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Edició:1st ed. 2019.
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Accés en línia:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15982-5
Format: Electrònic Llibre
Taula de continguts:
  • Chapter 1: An Introduction to (Supposedly) Good Life
  • Chapter 2: Demonized Emotions and Tortured Bodies in the Age of Scientific Progress
  • Chapter 3: The Survival of the Happiest Who (Get To) Control the Resources and Procreation
  • Chapter 4: Eugenic Scientific Utopias Filled with Socially Engineered Happy Productive People
  • Chapter 5: From the Science of Human Betterment to the Science of Behavioral Control
  • Chapter 6: Scientific Pollyannaism of Authentic Happiness, Learned Optimism, Flow and the Empirically Correct Positivity Ratios
  • Chapter 7: On Being Pollyanna about Sciences
  • The Discovery of Scientism
  • Chapter 8: Critics and Critiques of Scientific Pollyannaism
  • Chapter 9: Re-telling the Story of Orphaned Girl Named Pollyanna.