User:Clancyelizabeth/Positive psychology

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Positive psychologists have suggested a number of factors may contribute to happiness and subjective well-being. For example, social ties with a spouse, family, friends, colleagues, and wider networks; membership in clubs or social organizations; physical exercise, and the practice of meditation. Spirituality can also be considered a factor that leads to increased individual happiness and well-being. Spiritual practice and religious commitment is a topic researchers have been studying as another possible source for increased well-being and an added part of positive psychology. Happiness may rise with increasing financial income, though it may plateau or even fall when no further gains are made or after a certain cut-off amount.

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The First Positive Psychology Summit took place in September of 1999, in Lincoln, Nebraska. The Summit took place over the span of three days, and it consisted of lecture sessions on topics such as objective measures, personal appraisals, appraisals by others, and more. Speakers were experts on particular topics pertaining to positive psychology, and the summit was attended by scholars interested in the field. In 2002, the first international positive psychology summit was held in Washington, D.C. More attention was given by the general public in 2006 when, using the same framework, a course at Harvard University became particularly popular. In June 2009, the First World Congress on Positive Psychology took place at the University of Pennsylvania.