Virtues and Vices in Positive Psychology

Kristján Kristjánsson received his PhD from the University of St Andrews, Scotland. He has taught at the University of Akureyri, Iceland, the University of Iceland and the University of Birmingham, where he is currently Professor of Character Education and Virtue Ethics. He has been a Visiting Fellow at Cornell University, the University of Konstanz, St Edmund's College (University of Cambridge) and the Institute of Education (University of London). He has written six books in English and three in Icelandic. He has published numerous articles on topics in education, moral philosophy, and emotion theory in international journals. He is a member of the International Society for Study of the Emotions, and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Moral Education.

• List of tables; Acknowledgments; 1. The personal, philosophical, educational, and historical contexts of positive psychology; 2. Happiness and the virtues; 3. Personality and the virtues; 4. Moral ontology and the virtues; 5. Moral motivation and the virtues; 6. Situations and the virtues; 7. Conflicts, practical wisdom, and the virtues; 8. Positive experiences and the virtues; 9. Education and the virtues; 10. Concluding remarks; References; Index.

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