positive psychology gratitude assignment
The purpose of this assignment is to help you better understand Positive Psychology (i.e., the scientific study of positive human functioning and flourishing). This not just feel-good, self-help stuff. Positive Psychology is the result of decades of research that has observed and tested how humans function in life in the happiest, most meaningful ways.
Your task is to go to this website (Links to an external site.), read through the entire thing, take the quiz, and then complete the questions (below). Here are the sections you should read:
- How to do it
- Why you should try it
- Evidence that it works
- Why it works
- Sources
- Quiz
- (also, look around at the broader website – Greater Good in Action, berkley.edu)
Submission: Upload a document with the following three parts completed:
1) Your gratitude letter (300 words), AND a statement about whether you think you will really deliver this letter (no pressure!) and how you’re feeling about it.
2) A 100+ word paragraph about why, from a scientific perspective, you think that this activity is meaningful.
3) Your score on the gratitude quiz and 100+ words of personal reflection about your results.