We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is not an act but a habit. —Aristotle One of the parable studies in positive psychology is an investigation reported some years ago by Phillip Brickman, Dan ...

Survivors of trauma report more favorable appraisals of the value of their lives after being jolted out of complacency (Janoff-Bulman, 2004). Shedding the expectations we believe society places on us, ...