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Hirsch, Michael,
10
Hochschild, Arlie,
53
Hodgson, Godfrey,
7
Holland, Jimmie,
42–43
Holmes, Ernest,
92
Home Depot,
54
Horton, Michael,
133
How Full Is Your Bucket?
(Raft and Clift on),
54
,
173
How to Win Friends and Influence People
(Carnegie),
52–53
Hybels, Bill,
137
,
141–42
immune system,
19
,
34–40
,
165
inferiority complex,
92–93
In Search of Excellence
(Peters),
112–13
International Coach Federation,
99
n International Positive Psychology Summits,
158
,
172–75
Iran,
201–2
Iraq war,
11
,
38
,
47
,
58
,
167
Isikoff , Michael,
10
Jackson, Rev. John,
142
Jakes, T. D.,
183
James, Alice,
81
,
84
James, Henry,
1
,
81
James, William,
81
,
84
,
87–89
Jesse Helms Center Foundation,
168
Joke, The
(Kundera),
202–3
Journal of Happiness Studies
,
148
Kapuscinski, Ryszard,
201–2
Katrina, Hurricane,
11
Kennedy, John F.,
168
Kenyon, E. W.,
134
Kersten, E. L.,
121
Khurana, Rakesh,
108
,
110
King, Larry,
11
,
60
,
65
,
72
,
185
,
192
Knight, J. Z.,
62
Komen, Susan G., Foundation,
22
,
28
,
32
,
34
Krugman, Paul,
7
,
181
Kundera, Milan,
202–3
Kushner, Rose,
21
Lane, Carrie,
119
LaRosa, John,
98
law of attraction,
59–73
,
80
,
148
,
177
,
185
,
205
Law of Attraction
(Losier),
62
Laying Hold of Your Inheritance
(videotape series),
135–36
Learned Optimism
(Seligman),
156
Lehman Brothers,
184
,
187–88
,
190
Leidner, Robin,
104
Leonhardt, David,
179
Lereah, David,
181
Let Freedom Ring,
167
Lewis, Michael,
187
Libby Ross Foundation,
23–24
Liberation Management
(Peters),
113
“Life Is Good” products,
97–98
Little Gold Book of YES! Attitude
(Gitomer),
95
Lodhia, Primalde,
118–19
“Look good . . . Feel Better” program,
30
Losier, Michael J.,
62
,
66
Love, Dr. Susan,
20
Love, Medicine, and Miracles
(Siegel),
36
Lyubomirsky, Sonja,
148
Mackay, Harvey,
180
magic,
63–65
,
72
Mamet, David,
102
Mamm
magazine,
21
,
26
,
30–31
management science,
107–8
,
111
Manhattan Institute,
168
Marketdata Enterprises,
98
,
99
n
market economy,
8–9
,
22–23
,
203–4
market fundamentalism,
191–92
Maroney, J. P.,
55
Mary Kay cosmetics,
103
Matlin, Marlee,
62
Matthews-Simonton, Stephanie,
35
McCain, John,
167
McConnell, D. R.,
134
McGee, Micki,
90
McKinsey firm,
112
megachurches,
123–46
Merrill Lynch,
185
Meyer, Donald,
93
,
204
Meyer, Joyce,
125
,
133
,
140
Michael Clayton
(film),
189–90
Michaelson, Adam,
186
Michigan Psychological Association,
150
Miller, Arthur,
102
Mills, Chuck,
185
Mills College study,
161
Moody’s,
191
Morter, Sue,
49
,
67
,
69
,
86
motivation industry,
9
,
37
,
97–106
,
149
,
192–93
financial corporations and,
185–87
conventions and summits and,
48–52
pastor as CEO and,
142–45
The Secret
(Byrne) and,
60–61
unemployment and,
115–22
Mozilo, Angelo,
186
Murdoch, Rupert,
141–42
Nagy, Rebecca,
70
National Association of Realtors,
181
National Association of Scholars,
168
National Speakers Association Convention (2007),
48–52
,
58–59
,
61
,
67
,
69–70
,
116
,
172
Native Americans,
78
,
111–12
negative people,
52–59
negative thinking (pessimism),
5
,
47
,
74
,
90–91
,
127–28
health and,
160–63
political repression of,
10
,
202–3
positive psychologists and,
150–51
,
155–56
realism and,
195–200
,
204–5
workplace and,
45
,
54
,
105
,
187–88
,
193–94
neurasthenia,
80–88
,
160
Never Saw It Coming
(Cerulo),
10
New Thought movement,
79
,
85–93
,
95–96
,
123
,
133–36
1984
(Orwell),
203
Norem, Julie,
198
North Korea,
202
Nothaft, Frank,
181
Novo Nordisk,
193
NYNEX,
119
,
121
Obama, Barack,
180
“optimism training,”
152
,
156
,
172
Orsi, Robert,
78
Orwell, George,
203
Osteen, John,
134
,
136
Osteen, Victoria,
128–32
,
182
,
192
Outward Bound,
120–21
Pacific Institute,
99
PastorPreneur
(Jackson),
142
pastorpreneurs,
137
,
140–43
,
145
“Peak Potentials Training,”
55
Peale, Norman Vincent,
89
,
92
,
96
,
100
,
102
,
115
,
126–27
,
134
,
147
,
167–68
,
175
,
191
Pearlstein, Steven,
183–84
Peck, M. Scott,
94
Peters, Tom,
110
,
112–13
,
115
Peterson, Chris,
170
Phillips, Kevin,
183
Pilgrim’s Progress, The
(Bunyan),
95
Pollay, David J.,
173
“Positive Attitude Helped Woman Beat Cancer” (Young),
33
“Positive Mental Attitude,”
104
“Positive Pals,”
97
“Positive Power” CDs,
193
positive psychology,
12
,
147–76
,
200–201
,
204–5
positive psychology, politics of
conservatives,
168–71
,
206
liberals,
169
,
172
Positive Psychology Coaching
(Biswas-Diener and Dean),
149
positive thinking
American culture and,
1–13
breast cancer and,
15–44
Calvinism and roots of,
74–79
,
82–84
,
89–92
,
95–96
Carnegie and promoters of, in business,
52–54
corporate culture and,
48
,
96
,
99–113
,
137–46
corporate downsizing and,
8–9
,
45–48
,
114–22
,
177–80
,
192–94
corporate leadership and,
106–13
,
184–91
defined,
4–5
financial meltdown and,
180–94
law of attraction and magical thinking and,
59–73
megachurches and,
123–46
motivation industry and,
9
,
11–12
,
47–51
,
59–73
,
97–122
negative people seen as menace by,
52–57
news seen as negative by,
57–59
New Thought and Christian Science and,
78–92
,
133–34
Peale changes focus of, to wealth,
89–96
,
159
politics and,
10
,
168–69
,
201–3
positive psychology and,
147–76
realism and vigilance as alternative to,
44
,
195–206
Positive Weight Loss Approach Web site,
46
Powell, Colin,
98
Power of Positive Thinking, The
(Peale),
92–93
,
100
,
102
,
105
,
167
Price, Fred,
134–35
Pritchett, V. S.,
89
Prosper Inc.,
103–4
prosperity gospel,
124–25
,
134–36
,
143
,
177
,
182–83
,
192
Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, The
(Weber),
8
Pursuit of Happyness, The
(Gardner),
185
quantum physics,
67–71
,
86
Quimby, Phineas Parkhurst,
79–80
,
85–87
,
134
,
160
Race for the Cure,
22–23
Ramtha School of Enlightenment,
62
Reagan, Ronald,
184
,
198
Reece, Roger (“Buford P. Fuddwhacker”),
186–87
Reengineering the Corporation
(Champy),
106–7
Reeves, Richard,
115
[http://reflectivehappiness.com]
reflectivehappiness.com,
149
Reich, Robert,
181
Relay for Life,
27
Republican Party,
167
Rice, Condoleezza,
10–11
Richards, Ellen,
81
,
88
Richistan
(Frank),
189
Rittenberg, Cynthia,
42
Robbins, Tony,
94
,
98
,
112
,
185
,
194
Robertson, Pat,
123
Rollin, Betty,
21
,
29
Romney, Mitt,
167
Roosevelt, Teddy,
88
Rybcynski, Wytold,
138
salespeople,
100–107
,
114–15
,
143
Sanger, Margaret,
81
Sarno, John E.,
160
“Satisfaction with Life Scale,”
170
Schofield, Penelope,
42
Schuller, Robert,
127
,
131
,
134
,
137
,
142
,
145
,
192
Scientific American
,
11
,
39
,
66

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