Background: At a time of increasing disconnectedness from nature, scientific interest in the
potential health benefits of nature contact has grown. Research in recent decades has …

According to the grounded perspective, cognition emerges from the interaction of classic
cognitive processes with the modalities, the body, and the environment. Rather than being …

This chapter provides an overview of two prominent approaches to wellbeing, the hedonic
and the eudaimonic, both with roots traceable to the ancient Greeks. We first examine the …

As president of the American Psychological Association in 1998, I organized researchers
and practitioners to work on building well-being, not just on the traditional task of reducing ill …

Objective Scientific research into compassion has burgeoned over the past 20 years and
interventions aiming to cultivate compassion towards self and others have been developed …

Research conducted over the past several decades has revolutionized our understanding of
the role of the immune system in neural and psychological development and function across …

Purpose Over the last 10–15 years, there has been a substantive increase in compassion‐
based interventions aiming to improve psychological functioning and well‐being. Methods …

Numerous scholars have claimed that positive ethical traits such as virtues are important in
human psychology and behavior. Psychologists have begun to test these claims. The scores …

Contemporary scholarship on mindfulness casts it as a form of purely nonevaluative
engagement with experience. Yet, traditionally mindfulness was not intended to operate in a …

A large international sample was used to test whether hedonia (the experience of positive
emotional states and satisfaction of desires) and eudaimonia (the presence of meaning and …