Click Here to Access the Full Text Cite Wong, P. T. P. (2022). The wisdom of the soul: The missing key to happiness and positive mental health? [Review of the book A Time for Wisdom: Knowledge, Detachment, Tranquility, Transcendence, by P. T. McLaughlin & M. R....
Abstract Soper’s pain-brain theory, based on evolutionary biology, represents a provocative breakthrough for both suicidology and positive psychology. The main thesis of the book is that the evolved way of choosing to live rather than to die in the face of unbearable...
Abstract Overall, I am impressed with Baumeister and von Hippel’s analysis in this essay (this issue), but I am less satisfied in “the special issue of applying meaning to life, culminating in the modern existential debates about the meaning and purpose of life...
Abstract In a democratic society, people are free to choose, but are not free from the consequences of their choices. A sense of responsibility towards the self, others, and a higher authority serves the important function of guiding people to make the right choices....
Positive Psychology: The Science of Happiness and Flourishing (3rd ed.) By William C. Compton and Edward Hoffman Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2019. 528 pp. ISBN 978-1544322926 $95.00 Reviewed by Paul T. P. Wong Abstract Compton and Hoffman’s third edition of Positive...
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