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Christopher Peterson
Researcher at La Trobe University
Publications - 166
Citations - 37083
Christopher Peterson is an academic researcher from La Trobe University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Values in Action Inventory of Strengths & Explanatory style. The author has an hindex of 65, co-authored 161 publications receiving 34409 citations. Previous affiliations of Christopher Peterson include University of Zurich & Virginia Tech.
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Positive Psychology Progress: Empirical Validation of Interventions.
TL;DR: In a 6-group, random-assignment, placebo-controlled Internet study, the authors found that 3 of the interventions lastingly increased happiness and decreased depressive symptoms.
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Grit: Perseverance and Passion for Long-Term Goals
TL;DR: Grit demonstrated incremental predictive validity of success measures over and beyond IQ and conscientiousness, suggesting that the achievement of difficult goals entails not only talent but also the sustained and focused application of talent over time.
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Character Strengths and Virtues: A Handbook and Classification
TL;DR: The classification of strengths presented in this article is intended to reclaim the study of character and virtue as legitimate topics of psychological inquiry and informed societal discourse, by providing ways of talking about character strengths and measuring them across the life span.
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The attributional Style Questionnaire
Christopher Peterson,Amy Semmel,Carl L. von Baeyer,Lyn Y. Abramson,Gerald I. Metalsky,Martin E. P. Seligman +5 more
TL;DR: The Attributional Style Questionnaire as mentioned in this paper measures individual differences in the use of these attributional dimensions, and is used to measure individual differences between depressive symptoms and the learned helplessness model.
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Causal explanations as a risk factor for depression: Theory and evidence.
TL;DR: A variety of new investigations of the helplessness reformulation that employ five research strategies that converge in their support for the learned helplesshood reformulation are described.