Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

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.  

A paper and pencil screening tool used to determine if a person has a low enough health risk to begin a physical activity program.  

A plant based eating plan that also includes fish.  

Qualitative categories of personality within a particular domain that define the person according to the construct’s characteristics, such as Type A.  

Characteristics of an altered or meditative state in which bodily sensations are experienced as unusual or out of the ordinary.