Category: P

Also known as a longitudinal design; involves research in which participants are evaluated at baseline and then tracked across time.  

A judgment in Lazarus’s model about the relative significance of an event regarding its potential benefit or harm-loss.  

A characteristic of an altered or meditative state in which the mind is focused on what is occurring in the moment.  

A positive response to trauma usually characterized by strengthening of relationships and development of more positive self and worldviews.  

The flip side of negative reciprocity involves expressing how much individuals like each other’s positive qualities and behaviors.  

The field of study in psychology that focuses on examining and promoting well-being and optimal human functioning.  

Focus on how positive therapy and interventions can maximize flourishing and other optimal positive functioning experiences.  

Obesity is a result of a motivation to eat pleasurable foods that are in abundance in modern societies.  

Pathway through which the hypothalamus secretes peptide messengers called releasing factors into the anterior pituitary to stimulate the pituitary’s secretion of beta-endorphin and adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) into the bloodstream.  

Planned physical activity designed to exert one’s body for health and fitness benefits.