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Over a prolonged period of time, psychology has not given adequate attention to the positive aspects of human life. It is quite understandable — psychology is the field of science whose main practical purpose is to help people, so it would, historically, rather embrace subjects basically dealing with painful human experiences. Psychologists tried to describe and understand where the sources and causes of personal unwellness originated from and how these negative states and difficulties could be better overcome and coped with. According to Myers and Diener (1995), psychological studies on negative states of mind and situations predominated in the past over the research on positive topics in the ratio of 17:1.

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