Part I: An Overview of the Positive Humanities
Chapter 1: Introduction: The Role of the Arts and Humanities in Human Flourishing
Louis Tay and James O. Pawelski
Chapter 2: The Positive Humanities: Culture and Human Flourishing
James O. Pawelski
Part II: Historical and Current Trends
Chapter 3: The Humanities and Human Flourishing
Darrin McMahon
Chapter 4: Towards a Contextual Model of Arts and Humanities Engagement and Human Flourishing
Yerin Shim
Chapter 5: Flourishing Effects of Integrating the Arts and Humanities in STEM Education: A Review of Past Studies and an Agenda for Future Research
Hoda Vaziri and Norman M. Bradburn
Part III: Flourishing Outcomes of the Arts and Humanities
Chapter 6: Art, Music, and Literature: Do the Humanities Make our Lives Richer, Happier, and More Meaningful?
Erin Westgate and Shigehiro Oishi
Chapter 7: Lessons for Positive Arts and Humanities from the Science of Meaning in Life
Alexis N. Wilkinson and Laura A. King
Chapter 8: Cultivating Psychological Well-Being through Arts-Based Interventions
Olena Helen Darewych
Chapter 9: The Neuroscience of Well-Being: A General Framework and Its Relation to Humanistic Flourishing
Yoed N. Kenett and Anjan Chatterjee
Chapter 10: How to Encourage People to Engage with the Arts and Humanities: Suggestions from Self-Efficacy Theory and Research
James E. Maddux and Evan M. Kleiman
Chapter 11: Understanding and Improving Emotion Regulation: Lessons from Psychological Science and the Humanities
Joseph Ciarrochi, Louise Hayes, and Baljinder Sahdra
Chapter 12: Character and Virtues in the Arts and Humanities
Willibald Ruch and Fabian Gander
Chapter 13: Holocaust and Humanity: Depicting Realities While Creating Pathways for Future Upstanders, Strengths Use, and Flourishing
Edward Jacobs, Michael Berenbaum and Ryan Niemiec
Part IV: Pathways from the Arts and Humanities to Flourishing
Chapter 14: The Role of Passion in the Arts and Humanities: How Quality of Engagement Matters
Robert J. Vallerand, Anna Sverdlik, and Arielle Bonneville-Roussy
Chapter 15: Flow in the Arts and Humanities: On Cultivating Human Complexity
Katherine Vrooman, Kelsey Procter Finley, Jeanne Nakamura, and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Chapter 16: Stories for Good: Transportation into Narrative Worlds
Kaitlin Fitzgerald and Melanie Green
Chapter 17: Awe, Approached
Piercarlo Valdesolo
Chapter 18: The Role of Reflection in Transformative Learning: Staff and Student Experiences
Camille Kandiko Howson and Saranne Weller
Chapter 19: Creativity and Human Flourishing
Mark Runco
Chapter 20: The Flourishing Congregations Project: Character Strengths Pathways to Enhance Well-Being Beyond the Individual
Rachel Hershberg, Ryan Niemiec, and Irwin Kula
Chapter 21: No Man is an Island: How Community Arts and Social Support Underpin Well-being
Katie Wright-Bevans and Alexandra Lamont
Chapter 22: A Walk in the Sun: The Awakening of Human Flourishing in Creative Youth Development
Ivonne Chand O'Neal
Chapter 23: Love and Other Positive Emotions in Social Practice and Contemporary Visual Art
Claire Schneider and Barbara L. Fredrickson
Part V: Disciplinary Considerations
Chapter 24: Music and Flourishing
Alexandra Lamont
Chapter 25: Visual Arts and Community Well-being
Lois Hetland and Cathy Kelley
Chapter 26: Film and Meaning
Keith Oatley
Chapter 27: Embodiment and Containment: Flexible Pathways to Flourishing in Theatre
Thalia R. Goldstein and Kristen Hayes
Chapter 28: Philosophy and Well-being
Justin Ivory and Valerie Tiberius
Chapter 29: History and Human Flourishing: Using the Past to Address the Present
Peter Stearns
Chapter 30: Practical Wisdom: What Philosophy and Literature Can Add to Psychology
Barry Schwartz
Chapter 31: Contributions of Reading Fiction to Well-being: Positive, Negative, and Ambiguous Consequences of Engaging with Fiction
David Kidd
Chapter 32: The Holiness of Wholeness: Religious Contributions to Human Flourishing
Kenneth I. Pargament, Serena Wong, and Julie J. Exline
Chapter 33: Insight and Sight: The Interplay between the Humanities and Business and the Impact on Student Well-being
Anne M. Greenhalgh, Douglas E. Allen, and Jeffrey Nesteruk
Chapter 34: The Medical Humanities: Embracing the Interdisciplinary Art of Medicine and Healthcare
Faye Reiff-Pasarew
Part VI: Public Engagement and Public Policy
Chapter 35: Investigating the Contributions of the Public Humanities to Human Development
David Kidd
Chapter 36: A New Concept for Museum “Museotherapy”: Promoting Health, Well-Being and Therapy through Art
Nathalie Bondil and Stephen Legari
Chapter 37: Humanities and Public Policy: Forging Citizens and the Nation
Daniel Fisher, Beatrice Gurwitz, Cecily Erin Hill, Stephen Kidd, and Scott Muir
Chapter 38: The Contribution of the Arts to Flourishing and Health
Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt and Alan Howarth