Positive Psychology Is Mainly for Rich White People
There will never be another Barbara Ehrenreich, but we can stand on her shoulders. Why is no one doing this? Is positive psychology no longer mainly for rich white people?
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There will never be another Barbara Ehrenreich, but we can stand on her shoulders. Why is no one doing this? Is positive psychology no longer mainly for rich white people? When will the dream team of Nick Brown, Harris Friedman, and Alan Sokal reassemble to point out nonsense and fight their way into American Psychologist to almost get full retraction of Barbara Fredrickson’s nonsense?
Original August 2013 Plos Blog Mind the Brain post
Positive psychology gurus and coaches give lots of advice about how we should lead our lives. Their threat is that if we don’t follow their advice, we will not only be unhappy, we risk sickness and death.
When Barbara Ehrenreich’s Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America was published outside of the United States, the book was retitled Smile or Die. The publisher was concerned that non-native English speakers might not understand the play on words in the original title. I think Smile or Die i…