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Emerging Technology in Positive Psychology
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Emerging Technology in Positive Psychology

David B. Yaden, Johannes C. Eichstaedt and John D. Medaglia
Pervasive Computing Paradigms for Mental Health, pp 92-96
11 Oct 2018

Abstract

Enhancement Linguistic analysis Mental health Noninvasive brain stimulation Positive psychology Psychopharmacology Virtual reality Well-being
Technological advances are providing the field of positive psychology with new means with which to potentially enhance well-being. Emerging interventions – such as those from psychopharmacology, noninvasive brain stimulation, apps, big-data computational linguistic analysis of social media, and virtual reality – often diverge in various ways from the primarily cognitive and psychosocial interventions more common in the extant positive psychology literature. This paper describes several of these emerging technologies and considers the effects that they may come to have on the science of well-being, and recommends that positive psychology discourse expand to more fully integrate biopsychosocial aspects of well-being.

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