Scientific Pollyannaism From Inquisition to Positive Psychology /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Yakushko, Oksana (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Summary:	IX, 241 p. 1 illus. text
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Edition:	1st ed. 2019.
Subjects:	Critical psychology. Psychoanalysis. Positive psychology. Psychology. Social sciences > History. Psychology, Industrial. Critical Psychology. Positive Psychology. History of Psychology. Work and Organizational Psychology.
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15982-5
Format:	Electronic Book

Table of Contents:

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.

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