We invite you to participate as a researcher for finding and adding resources on transformational change.   This is a dynamic tool for you to add information you find to your HS 301 individual group's wiki as you do research for class projects (click on the "Sidebar" located on the right in the "View" mode--select the appropriate Class Wiki).  We encourage you to share not only titles (for example, the citation of a journal article, a book, a blog, or title of a digital media stream), but also the places you found the resources and the search strategies you found useful, as we have in the links below. Students will post to the topic areas on the sidebar located on the right.

Required Assignment Materials:

Measuring the Immeasurable: The Scientific Case for Spirituality. (2008). Boulder, CO: Sounds True Publishers.  Read the following:

Segerstrom, S. C.  Doing Optimism: Optimists, Pessimists, and Their Potential for Change, pp. 101-119.

Hanson, R.  Seven Facts About the Brain that Incline the Mind to Joy, pp. 269-286.

Tennen, H. & Affleck, G. (1987). The Costs and Benefits of Optimistic Explanations and Dispositional Optismism. Journal of Personality, 55 (2).

cost benefit optimism article peer reviewed.pdf

Learned Optimism Test Adapted from Learned Optimism by Seligman, M.( Retrieved March 10, 2009).  http://www.stanford.edu/class/msande271/onlinetools/LearnedOpt.html 

HardTalk with Dr. Martin Seligman (December 19, 2007).  Watch this video posted to:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRdqR6d-wCU 

Supplementary Resource Materials:

Articles:

Peer Reviewed: 

 Kelley, T. M. (2004). Positive Psychology and Adolescent Mental Health: False Promise or True Breakthrough?,  Adolescence, 39 (154), 257-278.

Snyder, C. R. (2002). Hope Theory: Rainbows in the Mind. Psychological Inquiry, 13 (4), 249-276.Miller, A. (2008). A critique of positive psychology or "the new science of happiness'. Journal of Philosophy of Education, 42(3-4).critique of positive psych.pdf Seligman, M. (2000). optimism, pessimism, and mortality (Editorial). The Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 75(2), 113-134.seligman editorial.pdf Grandy, J. (2009). Psychometric properties and analysis of the AQ Profile. Peak Learning.PEAK_AQP_technicalSupplement.pdf

Books:

Seligman, M. (1998). Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life. New York: Pocket Books. 

Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life (book overview).

Learned Optimism book overview.docx  

Media:

Adventures of an Incurable Optimist - Michael J Fox.  (May 9, 2009)    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=May5B0melb4