New positive psychology research is being published in journals all the time, however, unless you work in academia or can afford to pay an annual subscription you cannot access them, and for copyright reasons we usually cannot publish them on this website. Be very wary of websites which do offer you free downloads because they may be breaching copyright.

But you can now download ten Dec 2009 papers from some of the best-known Positive Psychology researchers including Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Ed Diener, Antonella Della Fave and the UK’s Stephen Joseph. See the Table of Contents below. Thanks to Ingrid Brdar for the link.

In addition some positive psychology researchers and writers publish some of their articles on their websites, so we have collected a list of their links below -  you can also use them to find out more about their areas of expertise.

Where we have managed to find web links to journal articles which are not breaching copyright, we have included them too.

Happy reading!

Ilona Boniwell – Time perspectives

Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi – flow

Carol Dweck – mindsets

Barbara Fredrickson – the broaden and build theory of positive emotion

Jonathan (Jon) Haidt – moral elevation, admiration and awe

Stephen Joseph: post-traumatic growth

Alex Linley

Sonja Lyubomirsky: happiness, positive emotion, well-being

Jeanne Nakamura:

Chris Peterson

Martin Seligman: Authentic happiness  – University of Pennsylvania

Philip Zimbardo: Time perspectives