1800VENEERS CEO Dr. James Dunnavant Attends First World Congress on Positive Psychology
Las Vegas, NV, June 21, 2009 --(
PR.com)-- Over 1500 doctors, students, and general public converge on Philadelphia, Pa. hear two of the most renowned psychologists speak on positive psychology, “This is a wonderful new immerging field," Dr. James Dunnavant, DDS, CEO of 1-800-
VENEERS said after the opening special lecture, " positive physiology is going to make a significant impact on all areas of well being as doctors and patients as we learn more how to apply this new art and science to are practices.”
Seligman and Zimbardo discussed their groundbreaking research on how the science of positive psychology is changing the way we live our lives on an individual, societal, and global level.
Dr. Martin Seligman is the Fox Leadership Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania and founding director of its Positive Psychology Center. Seligman founded the field of positive psychology - in 1998 while president of the American Psychological Association - to study positive emotions, positive character traits, and positive institutions. The best-selling author's groundbreaking research on the pursuit and achievement of authentic happiness, and on how optimism can be learned, has been published in hundreds of academic articles and featured in a wide range of popular media over the years, including The New York Times, Newsweek, U.S. News & World Report, Reader's Digest, Redbook, and USA Today. He has written more than twenty books including Learned Optimism (Knopf, 1991), What You Can Change & What You Can't, (Knopf 1993), and Authentic Happiness (Free Press, 2002). Seligman's work has an unprecedented international appeal. His books have been translated into twenty languages and have been best sellers both in America and abroad.
Dr. Philip Zimbardo is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Stanford University, past president of the American Psychological Association, and two-time past president of the Western Psychological Association. He is internationally recognized through his classic research on the Stanford Prison Experiment, through his widely seen PBS-TV series Discovering Psychology, and through his popular trade books on shyness in adults and children (Shyness: What It Is, What to Do about It, and The Shy Child). Other publications include more than 300 academic articles, as well as the oldest current textbook in psychology (Psychology and Life, currently in its 18th edition), and two recent best sellers (The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil (Random House, 2007) and The New Psychology of Time That Will Change Your Life (Free Press, 2008)). He was awarded the Vaclav Havel Foundation Prize for his lifetime of research on the human condition. His broad range of interests in social psychology include shyness, time perspective, madness, cults, political psychology, torture, terrorism, and evil.
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