Positive Psychology:

The purpose of Positive Psychology is to use scientific methods to recognize and encourage the
variables that allow people, organizations, and societies to thrive. Instead of pathological human
functioning, it is concerned with optimum human functioning.

The rational investigation into what makes ever-day routine most worth witnessing is positive
psychology. Good brain research is a pragmatic way to deal with contemplating human thoughts,
emotions, and behavior, with a focus on virtues rather than flaws, building the positive qualities
in life as opposed to fixing the awful and ending.

Good brain research is a pragmatic way to deal with contemplating human thoughts, emotions,
and behavior.

1. Valued subjective experiences. (In the past) well-being, contentment, and satisfaction; hope
and optimism (for the future); and flow and happiness (for the future) (in the present).

2. Positive individual traits. The desire to love and to vocation, bravery, interpersonal ability,
aesthetic awareness, perseverance, forgiveness, originality, faith, high talent, and wisdom.

3. Civic virtues and the structures that transfer people to better citizenship.

Responsibility, help, altruism, civility, moderation, tolerance, and ethics of work

Emotions and Mood:

Emotions Mood
Are intense feeling that are directed at Are feeling that tend to be less intense than emotions
someone or something. and that lack a contextual stimulus.
Are very brief (seconds or minutes) Moods lasts longer than emotions (hours or days)
Emotions are action oriented. Moods are cognitive in nature
Emotions are caused by specific event. Mood is often general & unclear
Emotions are accompanied by distinct facial Moods are generally not indicated by distinct
expression expressions.
Emotions cannot be neutral. Mood states affect perception and therefore
perceived reality.
  Emotions
In response to our understanding of a particular stimulus, emotions are chemicals
produced. It takes about 1/4 second for our brains to understand the trigger and about
another 1/4 second to generate the chemicals. By the way, emotional chemicals, not only
in our brains, are released in our bodies and create a kind of feedback loop between our
brains and bodies. They last for six seconds or so.
 Moods
Moods can last minutes, hours, probably even days.
There is more generalization of moods. They are not connected to a single event, but to a
series of inputs. Philosophy is highly affected by many factors: the atmosphere (weather,
lighting, people around us), physiology (what we eat, how we exercise, how balanced we
are), and finally, our mental state (where we centre attention and our present emotions).

The Function of Emotions:

Emotions can assist our decision-making procedure. Many researchers have demonstrated that
emotions are required for rational decisions.

Emotions prepare us for behaviors. Emotions orchestrate processes such as vision, focus,
inference, learning, memory, target selection, motivational priorities, physiological responses,
motor activities, and decision-making of behaviors when stimulated. Emotions at the same time
trigger specific systems and deactivate others to prevent the confusion of competing systems
operating all together, allowing for organized responses to environmental stimuli.

Thinking Feelings Decision Making

 Emotions Help us Act Promptly with Minimal Conscious Awareness,

 Emotions Prepare the Body for Instant Action.
 Emotions Influence Thoughts.
 Emotions Encourage Future Behaviours.
 Emotional Expressions Facilitate Specific Behaviours in Perceivers