(No direct relevance to ME/CFS)
James C. Coyne is an interesting renegade psychologist, as I've said before. He has written many critical posts about other psychological research.
His latest blog post is:
It is a small bit ranty, but does provide various links to more information.
I'm not 100% one way on the issue itself. I do think Barbara Ehrenreich has made many interesting points before about the problems of "positive psychology". Also, that the social circumstances can make a big difference. At the same time, I do feel one can at least sometimes do things to see the positive or not the negative, and gratitude (mentioned briefly) can be something useful to nurture as appropriate.
However, I found it interesting to revise some concepts such as: "discriminant validity" and "content validity". In particular, I found this idea interesting:
Generally I do find it interesting to read his stuff, to read about methods of critique of psychological research.
James C. Coyne is an interesting renegade psychologist, as I've said before. He has written many critical posts about other psychological research.
His latest blog post is:
Positive psychology is mainly for rich white people
http://blogs.plos.org/mindthebrain/2013/08/21/positive-psychology-is-mainly-for-rich-white-people/
It is a small bit ranty, but does provide various links to more information.
I'm not 100% one way on the issue itself. I do think Barbara Ehrenreich has made many interesting points before about the problems of "positive psychology". Also, that the social circumstances can make a big difference. At the same time, I do feel one can at least sometimes do things to see the positive or not the negative, and gratitude (mentioned briefly) can be something useful to nurture as appropriate.
However, I found it interesting to revise some concepts such as: "discriminant validity" and "content validity". In particular, I found this idea interesting:
This idea had occurred to me before, but never had a name for it.It would be fascinating to do a cognitive interview assessment of what respondents are actually thinking about when they complete the items.
Generally I do find it interesting to read his stuff, to read about methods of critique of psychological research.