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Edited by

Aleksandra Kostić

Derek Chadee

This edition first published 2021

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Names: Kostić, Aleksandra, editor. | Chadee, Derek, editor.

Title: Positive psychology : an international perspective / edited by Aleksandra Kostić, Derek Chadee.

Description: First edition. | Hoboken : Wiley, 2021. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020048416 (print) | LCCN 2020048417 (ebook) | ISBN 9781119666448 (paperback) | ISBN 9781119666431 (adobe pdf) | ISBN 9781119666363 (epub)

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Cover Image: “Happy Windows” by Aleksandra Kostić

We dedicate this book to two outstanding persons in their own right, a successful Caribbean entrepreneur and founder of the ANSA McAL Group of Companies, and an academic and founding member of positive psychology, both of whom have uniquely and positively contributed to the development of the field of psychology.

To Dr. Anthony N. Sabga for his philanthropic contribution towards the establishment of the ANSA McAL Psychological Research Centre at The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus and by extension to the development of psychology within the Caribbean – DC

To Professor Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi for his early and lasting contributions to the development of positive psychology – AK

Aleksandra Kostićis a Professor of Social Psychology at the Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Psychology at the University of Niš, Serbia. She teaches courses on Introduction to Social Psychology, Social Perception, Nonverbal Behavior, and Psychology of Interpersonal Behavior. Her research interests include nonverbal communication, emotional experience, time perspective, ethnic identity, and similarities and differences between cultures in perception of category, intensity and antecedents of emotion. She has published four books in Serbian including Facetalk : Signs and Meanings and Studies of Time Perspective in Serbia , Talk Without Words , and coedited four international books in the area of social psychology – Social Psychological Dynamics (2011); Time Perspective: Theory and Practice (2017); The Social Psychology of Nonverbal Communication (2014); and Social Intelligence and Nonverbal Communication (2020).

Derek Chadeeis a Professor of Social Psychology and Director of ANSA McAL Psychological Research Centre at The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus. His current research interests include the social psychology of fear of crime and general fear, antecedents of emotions, copycat behavior, and media influence on perception. He has published with the British Journal of Criminology , International Review of Victimology , Crime Media and Culture , Journal of Applied Social Psychology , Journal of Cross‐Cultural Psychology , and Psychology of Popular Media Culture . He has a strong interest in social psychological theories and his second edition of Theories in Social Psychology,Wiley, is forthcoming in 2021.