{"id":90,"date":"2014-02-10T08:39:30","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T14:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/swk504\/?p=90"},"modified":"2014-02-06T16:58:55","modified_gmt":"2014-02-06T22:58:55","slug":"the-science-of-self-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/swk504\/2014\/02\/10\/the-science-of-self-help\/","title":{"rendered":"The Science of Self-Help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"The Science of Self-Help\" href=\"http:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/blog\/the-science-self-help\/201402\/testing-self-help\">The Science of Self-Help<\/a> from Psychology Today<\/p>\n<p>1. The author briefly describes existing research on positive psychology and its limitations. How does the author&#8217;s proposed study either bypass or succumb to limitations?<\/p>\n<p>2. What are some potential confound variables for improved happiness in the cited studies?<\/p>\n<p>3. In one of the cited studies, data is collected from participants rating their happiness on a color spectrum: red being negative, to yellow being positive. What would be another way of assessing participants&#8217; happiness?<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Science of Self-Help from Psychology Today 1. The author briefly describes existing research on positive psychology and its limitations. How does the author&#8217;s proposed study either bypass or succumb to limitations? 2. What are some potential confound variables for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/swk504\/2014\/02\/10\/the-science-of-self-help\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":414,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/swk504\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/swk504\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/swk504\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/swk504\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/414"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/swk504\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/swk504\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103,"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/swk504\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions\/103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/swk504\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/swk504\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/swk504\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}