31 quotes
"Positive psychology has, in its pursuit of generalizability and standardization, marginalized the lived experiences of individuals."
Beyond Universal Prescriptions: Toward A Person-Centered, Bottom-Up Science of Wellbeing (2025)
"The level of statistical significance in a large experiment reveals very little about how or why specific individuals experienced change."
Beyond Universal Prescriptions: Toward A Person-Centered, Bottom-Up Science of Wellbeing (2025)
"This necessitates shifting practitioners’ roles from facilitators to developers, focusing on becoming data-driven technologists and analysts."
Positive organisational psychology 2.0: Embracing the technological revolution (2024)
"POP 2.0 is defined as an evidence-based, data-driven field of scientific inquiry that embraces technological developments, design principles, and innovations."
Positive organisational psychology 2.0: Embracing the technological revolution (2024)
"Psychologists are deploying tools they cannot audit and accepting recommendations they cannot justify."
The competence paradox: when psychologists overestimate their understanding of Artificial Intelligence (2026)
"The profession’s cognitive ecosystem is changing faster than the profession can understand or regulate."
The competence paradox: when psychologists overestimate their understanding of Artificial Intelligence (2026)
"This, in turn, has negatively affected positive psychology’s scientific credibility and public perception."
Grand Challenges for Positive Psychology: Future Perspectives and Opportunities (2022)
"However, within these criticisms and critiques lies unique opportunities to channel future growth and development of the discipline."
Grand Challenges for Positive Psychology: Future Perspectives and Opportunities (2022)
"We argue that the field has drifted into a 'science of averages' that can overlook, and at times harm, the very people it hopes to help."
Beyond Universal Prescriptions: Toward A Person-Centered, Bottom-Up Science of Wellbeing (2025)
"This is concerning because the difference between optimizing measurable correlates of wellbeing and supporting genuine wellbeing is the difference between creating a meaningful life vs. an efficiently managed one."
The AI-IARA framework: How to cultivate human agency before artificial intelligence optimizes it a(ny)way (2026)
"The field that defines wellbeing in the age of AI will not be the one with the most citations or the longest history. It will be the first one that shows up at the design table with frameworks engineers can actually understand and use."
The AI-IARA framework: How to cultivate human agency before artificial intelligence optimizes it a(ny)way (2026)