Rituals and Practices in World Religions / Religion, Spirituality and Health: A Social Scientific Approach Bd.5 (PDF)

David Bryce Yaden is a research fellow at The University of Pennsylvania's Positive Psychology Center under the direction of Dr. Martin Seligman. He works in collaboration with neuroscientist Dr. Andrew Newberg of Thomas Jefferson University and The Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at The University of Pennsylvania. His work has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, Washington Post, and New York Magazine. David recently published a major academic collection, Being Called: Scientific, Secular, and Sacred Perspectives (Praeger, 2015). He has co-authored numerous scholarly papers with Dr. Andrew Newberg and Dr. Martin Seligman. Huffington Post recently named David one of ten Millennials influencing the future of faith and he was interviewed about his last book on NPR.


Yukun Zhao is a PhD candidate at Tsinghua University, China. His research focuses on self-determination theory, growth mindset, meaning, and big data. He also serves as the Administrative Director of the Positive Psychology Research Center of the School of Social Sciences of Tsinghua University, and Director of Research Center of Tsinghua Happiness Lab. He is the author of four books including Autonomous Parentingand Positivity in a Negative Era, and translated Martin Seligman's Flourish, Mitchel Resnick's Lifelong Kindergarten, and Alison Gopnick's The Gardener and the Carpenter.


Kaiping Peng, PhD, is currently the dean of the school of social sciences, chair of the psychology department at Tsinghua University. Before returning to China in 2009, he was a tenured faculty member at the Department of Psychology of the University of California at Berkeley, the head of the social/personality psychology area in Berkeley, member of the American Psychological Association Leadership Council, executive committee of the Institute of East-Asian Studies at UC Berkeley. He a board member of the International Positive Psychology Association, and numerous other