Scientific Pollyannaism From Inquisition to Positive Psychology /

• Main Author: Yakushko, Oksana (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Critical psychology.; Psychoanalysis.; Positive psychology.; Psychology.; Industrial psychology.; Critical Psychology.; Positive Psychology.; History of Psychology.; Industrial and Organizational Psychology.

This book argues that the story of the orphan girl Pollyanna (namely, her strategy of playing the "glad games" to manage loss, abuse, and social prejudice) serves as a framework for critiquing historical forms of Western scientific Pollyannaism. The author examines Pollyannaism as it relat...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: An Introduction to (Supposedly) Good Life
• Chapter 2: Demonized Emotions and Tortured Bodies in the Age of Scientific Progress
• Chapter 3: The Survival of the Happiest Who (Get To) Control the Resources and Procreation
• Chapter 4: Eugenic Scientific Utopias Filled with Socially Engineered Happy Productive People
• Chapter 5: From the Science of Human Betterment to the Science of Behavioral Control
• Chapter 6: Scientific Pollyannaism of Authentic Happiness, Learned Optimism, Flow and the Empirically Correct Positivity Ratios
• Chapter 7: On Being Pollyanna about Sciences
• The Discovery of Scientism
• Chapter 8: Critics and Critiques of Scientific Pollyannaism
• Chapter 9: Re-telling the Story of Orphaned Girl Named Pollyanna.