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Welcome to the Authentic Happiness Website!
Here you can learn about Positive Psychology through readings, videos, research, surveys, opportunities and more.
Positive Psychology is the scientific study of the strengths that enable individuals and communities to thrive.
New! Foundations of Positive Psychology
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Dr. Martin E.P. Seligman
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Dr. James Pawelski
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Dr. Angela Duckworth
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Dr. Claire Robertson-Kraft
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Dr. Karen Reivich
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Grit: New Book by Dr. Angela Duckworth
Discover Positive Health
Our health care system has long focused on the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of disease. But health is more than absence of disease. Positive Health focuses on promoting people’s positive health assets—strengths that can contribute to a longer, healthy life.
Master of Applied Positive Psychology (MAPP) Program
at the University of Pennsylvania
Questionnaires
The questionnaires on Authentic Happiness measure character strengths and different aspects of happiness and well-being. It's free to take our questionnaires, but you'll first need to register.
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Questionnaires
Develop insights into yourself through these questionnaires. They are free, but you need to register. Log in, pick one and get started.
- Questionnaire Center
- VIA Stärkenfragebogen für Kinder und Jugendliche
- VIA Fragebogen zu Signaturstärken
- Fragebogen zur Entschlossenheit
- Skala zur Lebenszufriedenheit
- Fragebogen zu Orientierungen zum Glück
- Fragebogen zum "Sinn im Leben"
- Fragebogen zu engen Beziehungen
- Fragebogen zum Arbeitsleben
- Fragebogen zur Motivation, Grenzen zu übertreten
- Optimismus Test
- Fragebogen zur Dankbarkeit
- Kurztest zu Stärken
- Fragebogen zum allgemeinen Glückserleben
- PANAS Questionnaire
- Emotionsfragebogen nach Fordyce
- Fragebogen zum Glückserleben
- CES-D-Fragebogen - Depressionsskala
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Positive Psychology Books
Check out the huge variety of books on positive psychology.
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MAPP Program
Learn to apply the principles and tools of positive psychology to any professional domain or as preparation for further study in a Ph.D., M.D., or J.D. program, in the Master of Applied Positive Psychology program at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Theory of Well-Being
