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The Oxford handbook of the positive humanities / edited by Louis Tay and James O. Pawelski.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Oxford library of psychology
- Oxford handbooks online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Culture--Psychological aspects.
- Culture.
- Psychology and the humanities.
- Well-being.
- Happiness.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Other Title:
- Handbook of the positive humanities
- Positive humanities
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2022.
- Summary:
- This text reviews and synthesizes the theories, research, and empirical evidence between human flourishing and the humanities broadly, including history, literary studies, philosophy, religious studies, music, art, theatre, and film. Via multidisciplinary essays, this book expands our understanding of how the humanities contribute to the theory and science of well-being by considering historical trends, conceptual ideas, and wide-ranging interdisciplinary drivers between positive psychology and the arts.
- Contents:
- Art, Music, and Literature: Do the Humanities Make our Lives Richer, Happier, and More Meaningful? / Erin C. Westgate, Shigehiro Oishi
- Embodiment and Containment: Flexible Pathways to Flourishing in Theatre / Thalia R. Goldstein, Kristen Hayes
- Film and Meaning / Keith Oatley
- Visual Arts and Community Well-being / Lois Hetland, Cathy Kelley
- Flourishing Effects of Integrating the Arts and Humanities in STEM Education: A Review of Past Studies and an Agenda for Future Research / Hoda Vaziri, Norman M. Bradburn
- The Contribution of the Arts to Flourishing and Health / Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt, Alan Howarth
- Flow in the Arts and Humanities: On Cultivating Human Complexity / Katherine Vrooman, Kelsey Procter Finley, Jeanne Nakamura, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- History and Human Flourishing: Using the Past to Address the Present / Peter N. Stearns
- The History of the Humanities and Human Flourishing / Darrin M. McMahon
- Holocaust and Humanity: Depicting Realities While Creating Pathways for Future Upstanders, Strengths Use, and Flourishing / Edward Jacobs, Michael Berenbaum, Ryan M. Niemiec
- How to Encourage People to Engage with the Arts and Humanities: Suggestions from Self-Efficacy Theory and Research / James E. Maddux, Evan M. Kleiman
- Awe, Approached / Piercarlo Valdesolo
- Humanities and Public Policy: Forging Citizens and the Nation / Daniel Fisher-Livne, Beatrice Gurwitz, Cecily Erin Hill, Stephen Kidd, Scott Muir
- Lessons for Positive Arts and Humanities from the Science of Meaning in Life / Alexis N. Wilkinson, Laura A. King
- Museotherapy: A New Concept for Promoting Health, Well-Being and Therapy through Art / Nathalie Bondil, Stephen Legari
- Music and Flourishing / Alexandra Lamont
- No Man is an Island: How Community Arts and Social Support Underpin Well-being / Katie Wright-Bevans, Alexandra Lamont
- Philosophy and Well-being / Justin Ivory, Valerie Tiberius
- Love and Other Positive Emotions in Contemporary Visual and Social Practice Art / Claire Schneider, Barbara L. Fredrickson
- Practical Wisdom: What Philosophy and Literature Can Add to Psychology / Barry Schwartz
- Insight and Sight: The Interplay between the Humanities and Business and the Impact on Student Well-being / Anne M. Greenhalgh, Douglas E. Allen, Jeffrey Nesteruk
- Stories for Good: Transportation into Narrative Worlds / Kaitlin Fitzgerald, Melanie C. Green
- The Holiness of Wholeness: Religious Contributions to Human Flourishing / Kenneth I. Pargament, Serena Wong, Julie J. Exline
- The Medical Humanities: Embracing the Interdisciplinary Art of Medicine and Healthcare / Faye Reiff-Pasarew
- The Neuroscience of Well-Being: A General Framework and Its Relation to Humanistic Flourishing / Yoed N. Kenett, Anjan Chatterjee
- The Role of Passion in the Arts and Humanities: How Quality of Engagement Matters / Robert J. Vallerand, Anna Sverdlik, Arielle Bonneville-Roussy
- The Role of Reflection in Transformative Learning: Staff and Student Experiences / Camille Kandiko Howson, Saranne Weller
- Towards a Contextual Model of Arts and Humanities Engagement and Human Flourishing / Yerin Shim
- Understanding and Improving Emotion Regulation: Lessons from Psychological Science and the Humanities / Joseph Ciarrochi, Louise Hayes, Baljinder Sahdra
- Investigating the Contributions of the Public Humanities to Human Development / David Kidd
- Character and Virtues in the Arts and Humanities / Willibald Ruch, Fabian Gander
- The Flourishing Congregations Project: Character Strengths Pathways to Enhance Well-Being Beyond the Individual / Rachel M. Hershberg, Ryan M. Niemiec, Irwin Kula
- Introduction: The Role of the Arts and Humanities in Human Flourishing / Louis Tay, James O. Pawelski
- The Positive Humanities: Culture and Human Flourishing / James O. Pawelski
- Contributions of Reading Fiction to Well-being: Positive, Negative, and Ambiguous Consequences of Engaging with Fiction / David Kidd
- A Walk in the Sun: The Awakening of Human Flourishing in Creative Youth Development / Ivonne Chand O'Neal
- Cultivating Psychological Well-Being through Arts-Based Interventions / Olena Helen Darewych
- Creativity and Human Flourishing / Mark A. Runco.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2022.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on January 10, 2022).
- Other Format:
- Print version :
- ISBN:
- 9780190064600 (ebook) :
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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