One of the more heartening developments over the past decade or so has been the emergence of an empirical subdiscipline that has been labeled “positive psychology” (Seligman & Csikszentmihalyi, 2000). While, as is the case with most such “new” developments, one can cite many antecedents—from the humanistic psychology of Abraham Maslow and others to B. F. Skinner's controversial fictional 1948 account of a behaviorist utopia in Walden Two—this development has been dramatic.