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Publicación Las raíces de la Psicología Positiva(2012) Cabanas Díaz, Edgar; Sánchez González, José CarlosLa Psicología Positiva se apoya en un peculiar modelo de individuo desarrollado en la cultura popular estadounidense desde finales del s. XVIII. Este modelo, al que hemos llamado individualismo "positivo", arranca con el Trascendentalismo de Emerson y su defensa, contra el puritanismo, del individuo como una esencia capaz de autodeterminarse, autoconocerse y desarrollarse ilimitadamente, gracias a que forma parte de la Divinidad. A partir de aquí, nuevos movimientos más "prácticos", como el Nuevo Pensamiento, o el Pensamiento Positivo, enfatizaron, a través de cientos de manuales de autoayuda, el poder del pensamiento individual para imponerse a la materia y al mundo y curar directamente la enfermedad, atraer la riqueza y la salud y conseguir la felicidad. Enfoques alternativos, también genuinamente americanos, como el de John Dewey, criticaron en su momento ese modelo de individualidad y ofrecieron alternativas teóricas apoyadas en ciertos desarrollos del Funcionalismo y en una agenda política diferente. La Psicología Positiva hoy trata de distanciarse de los aspectos metafísicos más ostensibles del individualismo "positivo", pero mantiene aquella concepción ahistórica, asocial y subjetivista del individuoPublicación Positive Psychology and the legitimation of individualism(SAGE Publications, 2018) Cabanas Díaz, EdgarPositive Psychology (PP) has been firmly institutionalized as a worldwide phenomenon, especially in the last decade. Its promise of well-being has captured many people’s longings for solutions in times of significant social uncertainty, instability, and insecurity. The field, nevertheless, has been severely criticized on multiple fronts. This article argues that positive psychology is characterized by a narrow sense of the social as well as by a strong individualistic bias that reflects the core beliefs of neoliberal ideology. In this regard, the present paper aims to illustrate the extent to which individualism is essential to understanding the theoretical and empirical foundations of PP’s conceptualization of happiness. Additionally, the paper questions whether positive psychology and its individualist conception of human well-being are not themselves contributing to sustain and create some of the dissatisfaction to which they promise a solution.Publicación Disorientation as an Emotional Experience: An Introduction from an Interactionist Perspective(Springer, 2024-07-24) Cabanas Díaz, EdgarDisorientation is a versatile, multidisciplinary concept. Whether associated with its spatial meaning or its non-spatial, more metaphorical sense, various disciplines have used disorientation to describe a broad range of philosophical, cultural, and social phenomena in the last decades. However, the focus on the concept from an emotional perspective remains scarce. To expand the current investigation on the topic, the present paper attempts a first approach to conceptualize disorientation as an emotional experience from an interactionist perspective. The paper reviews the previous literature, provides theoretical background and a working definition for the concept, and examines prototypical situations that are potentially disorienting for individuals, emphasizing the social and situated nature of the disorienting experience. The paper also comments on the relationships between disorientation and culture and points out some implications of the concept in mental health and psychological distress. Altogether, the paper argues about the value of disorientation as a powerful construct to gain insight into what, why, and how traumatic and everyday situations as well as current cultural and social challenges impact people emotionally.Publicación Becoming Positive Souls. Spirituality and Happiness from New Thought to Positive Psychology(Routledge, 2020) Cabanas Díaz, Edgar; Sánchez-González, José CarlosContemporary therapeutic ethos is tightly associated with the culture and industry of happiness. Positive psychology, presented as a revolutionary, scientific, and universal―and therefore ultimate―understanding of what human happiness is and how it can be achieved, has played an essential role in this in the last two decades. Nevertheless, despite its popular and academic influence on a global scale, the field seems to have neither fulfilled its scientific ambitions nor offered something substantially new from its cultural and popular predecessors. On the contrary, the field should be seen as the latest and most influential manifestation of a North American spiritual tradition long convinced that happiness and misery, health and illness, are individual mind productions. In this regard, the purpose of this chapter is twofold. First, to raise epistemological concerns related to positive psychology’s presentation of old, spiritualistic, and ethnocentric ideas as new, scientific, and universal truths about human happiness. Second, to show the strong continuity of positive psychology’s assumptions and therapeutic techniques with New Thought metaphysics, a popular and religious movement that since the years of Phineas P. Quimby has been consecrated to bringing science and spirituality together in the understanding of human health and happiness.Publicación Travellers. Transformative Journeys and Emotional Contacts(Berghahn Books, 2019-06-06) Cabanas Díaz, Edgar; Khan, Razak; Marjanen, Jani; Gammerl, Benno; Nielsen, Philipp; Margrit PernauPublicación La obra de John Dewey contada por Henri Delacroix. Notas para una revisión de la recepción del pragmatismo en Francia(Universidad de Valencia, 2012-12) Pizarroso López, Noemí; Cabanas Díaz, EdgarPresentamos aquí una traducción al castellano del discurso pronunciado por Henri Delacroix sobre la obra de John Dewey, cuando fue nombrado Doctor Honoris Causa por la Universidad de París. Se trata de un texto «menor», escrito para la ocasión, como decano de la Facultad de Letras, que sin embargo contribuye a arrojar algo de luz sobre la imagen que se tiene de la recepción de Dewey, y del pragmatismo general, en Europa y, más concretamente, en Francia. De paso, también, nos permite ampliar la imagen que se tiene de la propia psicología francesa.Publicación Hijacking the language of functionality? In praise of negative emotions against happiness(Routledge, 2020) Cabanas Díaz, Edgar; lllouz, Eva; Hill, Nicholas; Brinkmann, Svend; Petersen, AndersPublicación The Making oThe Making of a “Happy Worker”. Positive Psychology in Neoliberal Organizations(Oxford University Press, 2016-12-20) Cabanas Díaz, Edgar; lllouz, Eva; Pugh, Allison J.In this work we analyze some of the economic and organizational conditions that help to understand the cultural pervasiveness of the modern idea of happiness and its inherent intertwining with neoliberal ideology. Specifically, we argue that happiness-based repertoires and techniques provided by positive psychologists are reshaping both the meaning and the logic of workers identity. Regarding this, we introduce the idea that Maslow’s “Pyramid of Needs”, on which managerial theory has relied in the last decades, has been completely inverted. We also analyze how individuals use these happiness-based repertoires and techniques to adapt behavioral patterns, self-image and expectations to the emerging demands of personal autonomy as well as the flexibility of networking organizations. This way, while these organizations delegate to workers many of the contingencies derived from work, displacing a great deal of the burden of the market and organizational uncertainty onto individuals themselves, positive psychologists claim to provide instruments that enhance self-control and resilient behavior in order to help individuals thrive in constantly changing, stressful and competitive environments.Publicación Inverting the pyramid of needs: Positive psychology’s new order for labor success(Colegio Oficial de Psicólogos del Principado de Asturias, 2016) Cabanas Díaz, Edgar; Sánchez González, José CarlosAntecedents: Positive psychologists claim to have demonstrated a causal relationship between happiness and life success, with the former accounting for why people usually end up better off in life than others, especially at workplace. Method: In this paper we will analyse the role that happiness-based repertoires and techniques provided by positive psychologists are playing in the current labor sphere. Results: Positive psychologists’ repertoires and techniques do not only meet the emerging demands derived from the changes in the notions of “work” and “worker” in the last decades, but also introduce a whole new logic in the construction of professional workers’ subjectivity, according to which happiness becomes a necessary psychological state that workers must first achieve and develop in order to attain job success at work. Discussion: This emerging logic does not only circumscribe to the labor sphere, but also reflects a broader cultural and economic phenomenon.Publicación Varieties of Happiness: Mapping Lay Conceptualizations of Happiness in a Spanish Sample(SAGE Publications, 2022-10-08) Cabanas Díaz, Edgar; González Lamas, JaraResearch on lay conceptions of happiness is essential to determine what is investigated in happiness studies. Whereas psychological investigation has traditionally emphasized the importance of studying people’s everyday conceptions and their relation to cultural and social factors to advance psychological theory, this line of research is still largely overlooked in the field. The Spanish context has also received very limited attention in the area. To fill these gaps, this paper examined 547 lay definitions of happiness in a sample of Spanish participants. The aims of the study were threefold. First, to map and classify the definitions elicited through an open-ended question using a bottom-up approach. Second, to analyze the relationship of happiness definitions with different sociodemographic factors. Third, to explore the relationship between happiness conceptualizations and two different happiness measures. The final classification yielded 39 codes, 15 categories, and 3 overarching types of definitions. Three main findings resulted from the study. First, happiness emerged as a highly heterogeneous concept characterized by diverse social, psychological, and theoretical descriptions. Social types of definitions stood out in the sample. Second, most definitions varied significantly with sociodemographic factors. Third, happiness scores tended to show no significant association with happiness definitions. Implications derived from these results were discussed. Altogether, the paper highlights the value of exploring lay conceptions of happiness to advance toward a more comprehensive and fine-grained understanding of what happiness means for —and, to a certain extent, of how it is experienced by— people of different cultural backgrounds and social settings.