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Well, for more than 60 years, psychology worked within the disease model.
Ten years ago, when I was on an airplane and I introduced myself to my seatmate, and told them what I did, they'd move away from me, because, quite rightly, they were saying psychology is about finding what's wrong with you.
The conclusion of that is, psychology and psychiatry of the last 60 years can actually claim that we can make miserable people less miserable.
And so that's what led people like Nancy Etcoff, Dan Gilbert, Mike Csikszentmihalyi and myself to work in something I call, "positive psychology," which has three aims.
The first is that psychology should be just as concerned with human strength as it is with weakness.
So in the last 10 years and the hope for the future, we've seen the beginnings of a science of positive psychology, a science of what makes life worth living.
But the upshot of this is that the mission I want psychology to have, in addition to its mission of curing the mentally ill, and in addition to its mission of making miserable people less miserable, is, can psychology actually make people happier?
But the pleasant life has three drawbacks, and it's why positive psychology is not happy-ology, and why it doesn't end here.
I have to tell you about my friend Len, to talk about why positive psychology is more than positive emotion, more than building pleasure.
Contrary to what psychology told us about the bottom 50 percent of the human race in positive affectivity, I think Len is one of the happiest people I know.
But I found that the problems of psychology seemed to be parallel to the problems of technology, entertainment and design in the following way: we all know that technology, entertainment and design have been and can be used for destructive purposes.
But when he gets back from the voyage, his interests start to expand even further: psychology, botany; for the rest of his life, he's moving backwards and forwards between these different fields.
And once you engage the psychology of teams, it shuts down open-minded thinking.
You can either take the blue pill and stick to your comforting delusions, or you can take the red pill, learn some moral psychology and step outside the moral Matrix.
Anyway, let's go with the red pill, study some moral psychology and see where it takes us.
The worst idea in all of psychology is the idea that the mind is a blank slate at birth.
Developmental psychology has shown that kids come into the world already knowing so much about the physical and social worlds and programmed to make it really easy for them to learn certain things and hard to learn others.
To find out, my colleague Craig Joseph and I read through the literature on anthropology, on culture variation in morality and also on evolutionary psychology, looking for matches: What sorts of things do people talk about across disciplines that you find across cultures and even species?
This probably comes from our long history of tribal living, of tribal psychology.
And this tribal psychology is so deeply pleasurable that even when we don't have tribes, we go ahead and make them, because it's fun.
It took all of our moral psychology to create these cooperative groups.
Yes, you need to be concerned about harm, you need a psychology of justice.
These two stanzas contain, I think, the deepest insights that have ever been attained into moral psychology.
Well, if you take the greatest insights from ancient Asian philosophies and religions and combine them with the latest research on moral psychology, I think you come to these conclusions: that our righteous minds were designed by evolution to unite us into teams, to divide us against other teams and then to blind us to the truth.
If you ask people about what part of psychology do they think is hard, and you say, "Well, what about thinking and emotions?"
So I think the future, main problem of psychology is to classify types of predicaments, types of situations, types of obstacles and also to classify available and possible ways to think and pair them up.
What I'm saying is, after we go through a lot of levels, including designing a huge, messy system with thousands of ports, we'll end up again with the central problem of psychology.
But analyzing the test-taker’s overall approach yielded real insights into their psychology.
Our partnership with the Ohio State University afforded us college students not only studying education but also school psychology and school social work.
And finally I ended up encountering psychology by chance.
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