Aleksandra Kostic is Professor of Social Psychology at Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Psychology, University of Nis, Serbia. She teaches courses on Social Perception, Nonverbal Behavior and Psychology of Interpersonal Behavior. Her research interests include examining the accuracy of the social psychology of nonverbal behaviour, social, emotional, and perceptual judgments, especially the judgments of primary emotions from the face, emotional intensity and antecedent-events and reaction to emotion. She is particularly interested in cross-cultural study of facial expression, questions of universal antecedents of the emotions, research on deception and facial clues to deceit.

Derek Chadee is Professor of Social Psychology and Director of the ANSA McAL Psychological Research Centre at the University of the West Indies. He is a Fulbright Research Scholar and has published several books in the area of social psychology. He has a robust research agenda on the psychology of fear of crime and has published in several international journals including: Journal of Applied Social Psychology, Psychology of Popular Media Culture British Journal of Criminology, International Victimology, Media and Culture, Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. He has a strong interest in social psychological theories and his second edition of Theories in Social Psychology, Wiley, is forthcoming in 2021.

List of Contributors ix
Acknowledgment xvi
Introduction: Embracing Psychology Positively xvii
1 The Empathy-Altruism Hypothesis:What It Is and Why It's Important 1
C. Daniel Batson
2 Positive Creativity: Creativity in Service of a Better World 22
Robert J. Sternberg
3 Notable Advances in the Science of Well-Being 32
Jessica Kansky and Ed Diener
4 Positive Psychology Coaching for Leadership Tensions 57
Ilona Boniwell and Wendy-Ann Smith
5 Positive Cyberpsychology: A Conceptual Framework of an Emerging Field 73
Jolanta Burke
6 Earth to Humans: Get with It or Get Out!: Adaptive Intelligence in the Age of Human-Induced Catastrophes 90
Robert J. Sternberg
7 Time Perspective and Good Feelings 101
Aleksandra Kostic, Derek Chadee, and Marija Pejicic
8 Physiological and Epigenetic Implications of Positive Emotions 117
Massimo Agnoletti and Sandro Formica
9 Youth Civic Engagement: Exploring Micro and Macro Social Processes 140
Laura Wray-Lake, Burkhard Gniewosz, Celina Benavides, and Sara Wilf
10 The Ups and Downs of Love: What Makes Love Go Well, or Badly? 165
Robert J. Sternberg
11 Flow as a Component of a Good Life 181
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
12 Global Perspectives on Positive Psychological Science: Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses 189
Stewart I. Donaldson, Saida Hesmati, and Scott I. Donaldson
13 Self-Efficacy, Collective Efficacy, and Positive Psychology 202
Shari Young Kuchenbecker
14 Positive Psychology Intervention: Going Viral and Staying Vital 224
Everett L. Worthington, Jr
15 From Serbia with Positive Orientation: The Serbian Studies 248
Vesna Petrovic, Dragan Zuljevic, and Gian Vittorio Caprara
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