Lisa G. Aspinwall Ph.D., is associate professor of psychology at the University of Utah, US, and a member of the Huntsman Cancer Institute. Her research program examines self-regulatory processes and future-oriented thinking (proactive coping, optimism, prevention) as people seek to anticipate, prevent, understand, and manage important negative outcomes, especially in the domain of health. She [...]
Category Archives: Positive Psychology
#298 The Relationship Between Positive Psychology and Health Outcomes with Lisa Aspinwall, PhD
March 23, 2012
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March 8, 2012
link to a CBS news television story in which he appears along with Barbara Erenreich and Lance Armstrong. Dr. Coyne and his behavioral science research team work on understanding the coping process in cancer patients and testing the effectiveness of interventions in enhancing the patient’s well being. Major depression and anxiety disorders tend to be [...]
#294 – The Dark Side of Seligman’s Comprehensive Soldier Fitness with Stephen Soldz PhD
February 16, 2012
Stephen Soldz, Ph.D. is a psychoanalyst, clinical psychologist, professor, and anti-war activist. In this interview we discuss
#281 – Short Interviews from Positive Psychology Congress and A Laughter Yoga Session
October 2, 2011
Today’s episode is a two-parter. First it features short interviews with attendees at the Second World Congress on Positive Psychology, held in Philadelphia earlier this summer. The second part features brief interviews with the teacher and students at a local Laughter Yoga session, I recently attended in Petaluma, California. The photo is a picture of [...]
#277 – At The 2nd World Congress on Positive Psychology: Part 2 with Dr. Ed Diener & Others
September 3, 2011
click here). You’ll definitely get more out of this by viewing those as you listen. Also, included in this episode, are a few of the interviews I conducted with other presenters and attendees. I hope these will help convey the diversity and excitement of the event.
#276 – At The Second World Congress on Positive Psychology: Part 1 with Dr. Martin Seligman & Others
August 27, 2011
#275 – Understanding Laughter as Medicine with Madan Kataria, MD
August 19, 2011
Madan Kataria, MD is the founder of Laughter Clubs International. We’ve all heard that laughter is the best medicine. If you’re old enough you may recall Norman Cousins’ 1979 book, Anatomy of An Illness. Norman Cousins was the editor of the Saturday Review magazine and he had come down with a serious, life threatening disease [...]
#228 – Positive Psychology Coaching with John Schinnerer
January 15, 2010
John Schinnerer, Ph.D. is in private practice helping individuals learn happiness by mitigating destructive emotions and fostering constructive emotions. Using positive psychology, he helps clients achieve happy, thriving, meaningful lives.
#217 – Happiness and Health with Dacher Keltner
August 28, 2009
Dacher Keltner, Ph.D. received his BA in Psychology and Sociology from UC Santa Barbara in 1984 and his PhD in Social Psychology from Stanford University in 1989. After a post-doc at UCSF with Paul Ekman, in 1992 he took his first academic job, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and then returned to Berkeley’s Psychology Department [...]
#201 – Energy Psychiatry and Emotional Freedom with Judith Orloff, MD
March 28, 2009
Judith Orloff, MD is an assistant clinical professor of Psychiatry at UCLA and author of the 2009 book, Emotional Freedom: Liberate Yourself from Negative Emotions and Transform Your Life. SPECIAL OFFER: Get 100 free gifts with purchase of book at
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December 18, 2008
Richard O’Connor, MSW, Ph.D. is the author of Happy At Last: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Finding Joy. His earlier books are Undoing Depression and Undoing Perpetual Stress. For fourteen years he was executive director of the Northwest Center for Family Service and Mental Health, a private, nonprofit mental health clinic serving Litchfield County, Connecticut, [...]
#186 – What Happy Women Know with Cathy Greenberg, Ph.D.
December 12, 2008
Dr. Cathy Greenberg focuses on the successful integration of business strategies and human performance. Cathy maximizes the outcomes of business change through executive coaching, using leadership and organizational assessments while developing internal coaching networks for enterprise wide success. Working with executives and CEO’s in the global Fortune 500 she has spanned all industries including financial [...]
#185 – At The SF Happiness and Its Causes Conference
December 5, 2008
We deviate from our regular format of interviewing a single person. Last week I attended a four-day conference in San Francisco on Happiness and It’s Causes. The conference was sponsored by a Tibetan Buddhist organization to raise money for an initiative known as the
#152 – Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction with Elisha Goldstein
May 10, 2008
Elisha Goldstein, Ph.D. is a Clinical Psychologist in private practice in Los Angeles and trained teacher of the increasingly popular Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR). He stands at the progressive end of integrating mindfulness into the therapeutic setting.
#142 – The Happiness Hypothesis
March 14, 2008
Jonathan Haidt, Ph.D. is a social and cultural psychologist and author of the 2006 book,
#65 – Clinical Applications of Positive Psychology with Judy Saltzerg
December 7, 2006
Judy Saltzberg Ph.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist who practices from a cognitive-behavioral perspective. A Founding Fellow of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy, she supervises therapists
#61 – Discovering Positive Psychology with James Pawelski, Ph.D.
November 20, 2006
For the past five years or so, Positive Psychology has been the next big thing in psychology. Dr. James Pawelski is currently the director of education at the University of Pennsylvania’s Positive Psychology Center, which supports the University’s newest masters program, the Master of Applied Positive Psychology.
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