What is the difference between positive psychology and chicken soup for the soul?

The two may be quite similar in the eyes of the public. It seems that I heard a chicken soup story, which is quite complementary and positive. It looks like a good story. You see how touching, warm and correct this story is. Look at this story, how inspiring it is. But in fact, these two things are completely different.

First, there are differences in practicality.

When the chicken soup for the soul first came out, it smelled delicious, but if you drink too much, you will get tired. After listening to a chicken soup story, we often can't find an executable and repeatable method. This is just a story. I want to be as happy and active as the people in the story, but the story doesn't point out the feasible path, and no one tells me where the road is, where is the thunder and where is the smooth road. After drinking the chicken soup, wipe off the oil stains on the table, as if nothing was left.

As a science, positive psychology has theoretical guidance and methodological realization, and the experimental results can be verified, repeated, confirmed or falsified. It uses empirical research to tell you how to take the road of happiness, what pits to hide and what thunder to avoid. These research results are like a map of our road to happiness.

Second, they have different purposes.

Professor Peng Kaiping from the Department of Sociology in Tsinghua University once offered an online course called Positive Psychology. At the beginning of the course, Mr. Peng talked about what positive psychology is. He said that positive psychology is not chicken soup for the soul, nor is it fortune telling, nor is it fortune-telling. It is a science that studies how people can be happy, what virtues and advantages human beings have, and how we can make use of these advantages. Teacher Peng said that positive psychology is the science of promoting positive human nature.

Thirdly, on the basis of argumentation, positive psychology is supported by evolution.

Chicken soup for the soul, um ... supported by a pen.

For example, to be kind, Chicken Soup for the Soul will tell you a story: someone is going bankrupt, desperate, desperate, and suddenly a strange old lady flashes out and gives him a helping hand, which immediately solves the problem and turns the corner. Why? Because so-and-so helped the old lady for free when she was young, this is a beautiful story of an old lady's gratitude. Finally, there may be a conclusion: kindness.

What positive psychology tells you is: Kindness is a virtue, it is a kind of character strengths, and it ultimately belongs to the virtue of "humanity". Research shows that a small part of character strengths is a gift, and most of the others are formed by changes in the environment. This gives us great maneuverability and gives people room to change, and we can take some practical measures to change it. For example, we can strengthen this advantage and virtue by participating in more public welfare activities.

When we discover, acknowledge and choose to use our character strengths, we will be happier, more successful, more adaptable and more satisfied with life, and it is easier to get a blessing and peak experience, and it is easier to get happiness and happiness.

In fact, a very simple example is needed to answer this question.

Chicken soup for the soul can be compared to a full meal, which can make you satisfied in a short time and make a decision instantly, but this decision can't be implemented instantly, or you can only feel the sense of identity in an instant, or just feel the video, or this copy makes you feel the short-term power.

Psychology, on the other hand, is a science, which includes micro-expressions, and snow includes body movements, language, form, current emotions, and so on, thus extending a series of disciplines.

If I have to make a metaphor, I can give you one like this. Eating chicken soup for the soul can only make you full in a short time, while psychology can make you full every day.

If we want another metaphor, chicken soup for the soul may just be a beam of sunshine. It briefly illuminates a place. Psychology, on the other hand, turns you into light.

Positive psychology is a science, which is devoted to perfecting the three important target systems of psychology.

Traditional psychology focuses on helping human beings to relieve pain, but makes little contribution to "helping human beings pursue happiness" and "identifying and cultivating talents". The emergence of positive psychology just fills the gap between the latter two.

Positive psychology is an empirical science based on a large number of experiments. The job of positive psychologists is to find out the reasons for a happy and meaningful life by scientific methods and explore how to "cultivate" these reasons by scientific methods.

Chicken soup for the soul only temporarily relieves people's inner pain with some irrelevant words, but it is only a superficial taste. Just like our favorite dessert, although it tastes good for a while, glucose will fill our bodies, but it will soon disappear, leaving us with more sweets and a vicious circle.

Positive psychology, like a healthy and low-sugar diet, has a long-term positive effect on our body and mind. Chicken soup for the soul is the dessert of primitive desire, which has long been seen.

For example, positive psychology and chicken soup for the soul are like an ideal and a dream.

An ideal is a combination of achievable goals established by a person committed to his own conditions, abilities, knowledge and world outlook. This can be achieved through our own efforts, deliberate practice and constant efforts. It is possible to achieve the goal, or there is hope.

And dreams, generally just dreams, are difficult to realize. That's a flower in the mirror, a moon in the water, and a dream. It can only bring you temporary pleasure and longing for the future. It looks beautiful, but it can't be realized. It may even mislead you and go astray.

I don't know how to explain these two concepts, but can you clarify the difference between them?

Positive psychology is to actively change and correct your thinking and behavior by mobilizing your inner motivation, and finally get the answers you want. This process is like planting a tree. Today, when you plant a seed, you need to fertilize and water it every day, weeding and killing insects until it grows up day by day. Therefore, positive psychology has scientific principles and methods to study happiness and advocates the positive orientation of psychology, so as to study the positive psychological quality of human beings and pay attention to their health, happiness and harmonious development.

Positive personality characteristics have two independent dimensions:

Positive egoistic characteristics: it refers to accepting oneself, having personal life goals or feeling the meaning of life, feeling independent, feeling successful or being able to grasp the environment and environmental challenges.

Positive relationship with others: refers to being able to get support from others when you need it, being willing and able to help others when they need it, attaching importance to and expressing satisfaction with the relationship with others.

The main points of positive psychology in psychotherapy are:

1, psychotherapy is not to repair the damaged part, but to cultivate the best positive strength of human beings;

2. Cultivate and strengthen the positive force of replacing defect repair;

3. Give full play to people's positive or positive potential: happiness, autonomy, optimism, wisdom, creativity, happiness, the meaning of life, etc.

Chicken soup for the soul is empty. Take planting trees as an example. If you plant a seed today, it will grow into a towering tree tomorrow, completely ignoring the different details and obstacles that everyone faces.

Bertram Fowler, a psychologist, proved a psychological phenomenon through experiments, named after barnum, a sage, and thought that it would be easy for people to believe that a general and general personality description was especially suitable for him. Even if this description is empty, I still think it reflects my character, even if I am not such a person at all.

Therefore, the characteristics of chicken soup are commonness, commonness and commonness, and it is a set of theories that everyone can apply to themselves. So there is no pertinence of the question, which is why there is a saying called "I know a lot of truth, but I still can't get along." Because there is no targeted guidance method, there is a lack of methods from knowing to doing!

Positive psychology is a new research trend in the field of western psychology at the end of the 20th century. The founder of this trend of thought is Martin Seyrig, a famous contemporary American psychologist. The definitions of Kennon M Sheldon and Laura King show the essential characteristics of positive psychology. "Positive psychology is a science devoted to studying the vitality and virtue of ordinary people." Positive psychology advocates studying the positive qualities of human beings, fully tapping their inherent potential and constructive strength, promoting the development of individuals and society, and making human happiness. Its spearhead is directed at the traditional "negative psychology" in the past. It is a psychological trend of thought that studies the positive aspects of human strength and virtue by using relatively perfect and effective experimental methods and measurement means in psychology.

Chicken soup for the soul has the functions of spiritual comfort and motivation enhancement (inspirational), and the content is a paragraph with optimistic understanding or action orientation to the world.

Therefore, chicken soup can temporarily nourish the soul, and positive psychology can make you really healthy.

Positive psychology is the most popular elective course in Harvard University. I recommend a book on positive psychology, The Method of Happiness, which I hope will help you.

Positive psychology has a complete system and methodology, and the training goal is human self-realization.

Chicken soup is an understated comfort and an excuse for not making progress.

Positive psychology enables people to reach a moderate state: appropriateness and justice.

Chicken soup makes people content with mediocrity: numbness and cowardice.

Simple metaphor, one is creation, the other is appreciation and guidance.

Chicken soup for the soul tells people the beauty of life with gorgeous scenes. Don't be negative, don't be at a loss, don't hesitate, and accurately say that everyone understands these truths.

While teaching people how to operate, positive psychology tells people to learn to show themselves and look forward to the future, which is similar to the practical work of the tutorial.

People with independent consciousness can find something useful for themselves no matter where they are; People who have no self-awareness can't find the truth by covering their faces!