Sublime

WEIRD people report behaving in more consistent ways—in terms of traits like “honesty” or “coldness”—across different types of relationships, such as with younger peers, friends, parents, professors, and strangers. By contrast, Koreans and Japanese report consistency only within relational contexts—that is, in how they behave separately toward

see ourselves as unique beings, not as nodes in a social network that stretches out through space and back in time.

PHILOSOPHER: It’s quite simple. It is when one is able to feel “I am beneficial to the community” that one can have a true sense of one’s worth. This is the answer that would be offered in Adlerian psychology.

educational researcher at the University of Pennsylvania named Erling Boe,

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology which found, ‘The importance of intellectual talent to achievement in all professional domains is well established, but less is known about the importance of resilience.

L’identité de groupe est un autre facteur décisif. Bon nombre de cultures asiatiques se fondent sur l’équipe, mais pas au sens où l’entendent les Occidentaux. En Asie, les individus se voient comme une partie d’un tout plus vaste – la famille, l’entreprise ou la communauté – et accordent une valeur énorme à l’harmonie dans le groupe. Ils

We think we know the ingredients for happiness. Sonja Lyubomirsky, a psychology professor at the University of California, Riverside, and popular author on the subject of happiness, summarized several reviews of the literature on the elements we commonly consider: “a comfortable income, robust health, a supportive marriage, and lack of tragedy or

Csíkszentmihályi developed the idea of “psychological capital,” or what he terms “paratelics.” When Ed Diener, a professor of psychology at the University of Illinois, measured the world according to Csíkszentmihályi’s paratelic factors, he discovered something so “shocking,” he says, it must be true. These paratelic factors—“I can count on