Positive Psychology
Positive Psychology has its own characteristics concerning character orientation. Researchers have decided that character and virtue are genuine topics of study. The classifications include twenty-four different character strengths that are categorized under six different virtues. The virtues are as followed: wisdom and knowledge, courage, humanity, justice, temperance, and transcendence. Each of these virtue categories have specific strengths and definitions that allow a starting point to compare psychological character.
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Famous quotes containing the words positive and/or psychology:
“Our role is to support anything positive in black life and destroy anything negative that touches it. You have no other reason for being. I don’t understand art for art’s sake. Art is the guts of the people.”
—Elma Lewis (b. 1921)
“A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of “spirit” over matter.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)