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Aleksandra Kostić is a Professor of Social Psychology at the Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Psychology at the University of Niš, Serbia. She teaches courses on Introduction to Social Psychology, Social Perception, Nonverbal Behavior, and Psychology of Interpersonal Behavior. Her research interests include nonverbal communication, emotional experience, time perspective, ethnic identity, and similarities and differences between cultures in perception of category, intensity and antecedents of emotion. She has published four books in Serbian including Facetalk: Signs and Meanings and Studies of Time Perspective in Serbia, Talk Without Words, and coedited four international books in the area of social psychology – Social Psychological Dynamics (2011); Time Perspective: Theory and Practice (2017); The Social Psychology of Nonverbal Communication (2014); and Social Intelligence and Nonverbal Communication (2020).

Derek Chadee is a Professor of Social Psychology and Director of ANSA McAL Psychological Research Centre at The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus. His current research interests include the social psychology of fear of crime and general fear, antecedents of emotions, copycat behavior, and media influence on perception. He has published with the British Journal of Criminology, International Review of Victimology, Crime Media and Culture, Journal of Applied Social Psychology, Journal of Cross‐Cultural Psychology, and Psychology of Popular Media Culture. He has a strong interest in social psychological theories and his second edition of Theories in Social Psychology,Wiley, is forthcoming in 2021.

Massimo Agnoletti graduated in general and experimental psychology at the University of Padua (Italy) and received his PhD at the University of Verona (Italy) where he is a research assistant. His experience is internationally based (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of California, Berkeley, Massachusetts General Hospital, Osaka University, University College of London, etc.) and his main scientific focus is on flow experiences, time perspective, psychological aspects in telomeres, and vagus nerve activation.

C. Daniel Batson is an experimental social psychologist. He is currently a Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Kansas. His extensive research on the empathy‐altruism hypothesis is reviewed in Altruism in Humans (2011) and A Scientific Search for Altruism (2019). He is also the author of What’s Wrong with Morality? A Social‐Psychological Perspective (2016).

Celina Benavides, is an Assistant Professor in the Child & Family Studies Department at California State University, Los Angeles. She earned a PhD in developmental psychology at Claremont Graduate University, an MA in human development and psychology at Harvard, and an MA in education and mathematics credential at Whittier College. She conducts research in two related topic areas: the educational experiences and outcomes of students of color, and the role of schools and communities in supporting the positive development of adolescents and young adults, namely through civic engagement initiatives and fostering purpose.

Ilona Boniwell is one of the European leaders in positive psychology, having founded and headed the first master’s degree in applied positive psychology (MAPP) in Europe at the University of East London. She heads the International MSc in Applied Positive Psychology (I‐MAPP) at Anglia Ruskin University, teaches positive management at l’Ecole Centrale Paris and HEC, and consults around the world as a director of Positran. She founded and was the first chair of the European Network of Positive Psychology (ENPP), organized the first European Congress of Positive Psychology in June 2002 (Winchester), and was the first vice‐chair of the International Positive Psychology Association (IPPA). She is now the vice‐president for the Francophone Association of Positive Psychology, serves on the board of directors of the International Positive Education Network (IPEN) and is a coeditor of the Applied Positive Psychology Journal. She is well‐published and author of Positive Psychology in a Nutshell (2006, 2016); coauthor of The Happiness Equation (2008), Positive Psychology: Theory, Research and Applications (2011, 2019), Well‐Being Lessons for Secondary Schools (2012); coeditor of The Oxford Handbook of Happiness (2013); and coauthor of Motivated Adolescents (2015) and PEPS: Positive Education for Parents and Schools (2018).

Jolanta Burke is a chartered psychologist (British Psychological Society) and an assistant professor at Maynooth University, Ireland, where she teaches well‐being. Prior to that, she was a master’s program leader in applied positive psychology at the University of East London, and lectured at Trinity Business School, where she developed a series of highly popular lectures about positive cyber psychology. Her latest books are The Ultimate Guide to Implementing Wellbeing Programmes for School and Positive Psychology and School Leadership: The New Science of Positive Educational Leadership. For her work on well‐being, she was acknowledged by the Irish Times as one of 30 people in Ireland who make it a better place.

Gian Vittorio Caprara is Professor Emeritus at Sapienza University of Rome where he served as chair of the Department of Psychology and dean of the Psychology Faculty. He has been president of the European Association of Personality and is a member of the Academia Europaea. He is author and coauthor of over 500 scientific publications, including several volumes, among which: Personality: Determinants, Dynamics and Potentials (with D. Cervone, 2000); Personalizing Politics and Realizing Democracy (with M. Vecchione, 2017). His research has addressed several topics across personality psychology, social psychology and political psychology.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi received his PhD in psychology from the University of Chicago, where he taught for 30 years and served as chair of the Department of Psychology. He is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Claremont Graduate University, where he founded and codirected the Quality of Life Research Center (QLRC). He is the author of Beyond Boredom and Anxiety: Experiencing Flow in Work and Play (1975), Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (1990), and Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention (1996). A wide range of his work was reprinted in the 2014 three‐volume set, The Collected Works of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.

Ed Diener is a Professor at the University of Utah and the University of Virginia, a distinguished emeritus professor at the University of Illinois, and senior scientist for the Gallup Organization. He is one of the most eminent research psychologists in the world. With over 400 publications and a citation count over 230,000, he is one of the most highly cited scientists in the world. He has been the president of three scientific societies and the editor of three scientific journals, including being a cofounder of the Journal of Happiness Studies. He was the founding president of the International Positive Psychology Association. He has received major awards in psychology including the Distinguished Scientific Achievement Awards from the American Psychological Association.

Scott I. Donaldson is a postdoctoral scholar in evaluation, statistics, and measurement at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, Moores Cancer Center. Scott received his PhD in psychology with a concentration in evaluation and applied research methods and a co‐concentration in positive organizational psychology from Claremont Graduate University. He received his BA in psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles, and his MS in organizational psychology from the University of Southern California. His research focuses on the design and evaluation of behavioral health interventions at work.

Stewart I. Donaldson is Dstinguished University Professor and executive director of the Claremont Evaluation Center at Claremont Graduate University. He is a cofounder of the first PhD and research‐focused master’s programs in positive psychology at Claremont Graduate University. He currently teaches, mentors, and employs numerous students specializing in positive organizational psychology, positive health and sports psychology, and evaluation science. He serves on the Council of Advisors for the International Positive Psychology Association (IPPA) and was chair of IPPA’s World Congress of Positive Psychology in Los Angeles (2013). He has published numerous articles, chapters, and books on the science of positive psychology, including his latest book Positive Psychological Science: Improving Everyday Life, Well‐Being, Work, Education, and Societies Across the Globe (2020).

Sandro Formica teaches Managing Self, Others and Positive Organizations in Hospitality at Florida International University and The Economics of Happiness in selected European universities. His book, “Personal Empowerment: Empower the Leader within You,” is highly experiential and contains over 200 self‐awareness practices and exercises. He is the academic director of the Chief Happiness Officer in the Hospitality and Services Industries certificate program, granted by WOHASU (World Happiness Summit) and Florida International University. As an academic, he published in international peer‐reviewed journals on human motivational factors and behavioral decision‐making, executive education needs, United States versus Europe training systems, and predictability of human preferences in future global business.

Burkhard Gniewosz received his diploma in psychology from the University of Jena, Germany, in 2002. He is currently Professor of Quantitative Research Methods in educational science at the Paris‐Lodron‐University in Salzburg, Austria. His major field of research concerns socialization processes during adolescence. He mostly focuses on contextual (family and school) influences on adolescents’ political and academic development. In recent years, his research interest centered on students’ motivation within a developmental context.

Saida Heshmati is an Assistant Professor of psychology at Claremont Graduate University. She is a positive developmental psychologist interested in how optimal development unfolds over time in diverse samples, especially in at‐risk adults. Using her expertise in positive relationships and love, human development, and state‐of‐the‐art analytical methods, she examines authentic or embedded assessments of large datasets related to individual and group characteristics that influence everyday well‐being and positive development. Her work has brought together a suite of measurement tools such as experience sampling methods, observational analysis, cognitive psychometric modeling, and wearable physiology monitors in the service of understanding how individuals’ sense of well‐being – and love as one component of well‐being – unfolds moment‐to‐moment in their everyday lives.

Jessica Kansky is a sixth‐year graduate student in clinical psychology at the University of Virginia and graduated summa cum laude with a BA in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. She will be completing her doctoral internship at the Charleston Consortium this year. Her research focuses on psychosocial predictors and outcomes of romantic experiences from adolescence through adulthood. Her interest is in the role of romantic relationships in optimal interpersonal and individual development and well‐being and she has recently published several reviews of romantic development across the lifespan. She has received numerous accolades for her teaching, receiving the University’s only Distinguished Teaching Award for Social Sciences in 2019 and the Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology Outstanding Student Teacher Award in 2020.

Shari Young Kuchenbecker is Associate Director and cofounder of the Western Positive Psychology Association (WPPA), Claremont, California. Her BA is from Stanford and PhD is from UCLA. She chose to tenure‐retire at the age of 32 to raise three kind efficacious children – one DVM and two PhDs. She continues to write, teach/do research at SoCal universities, presenting at conferences with colleagues and students, many now PhDs, EdDs, MAs, and parents. Her Stanford role model and lifelong mentor was Dorothea Ross. Albert Bandura, her academic grandfather, and she began regular “Salons” across the last two decades. Collaborating with Phil Zimbardo, Al’s and Phil’s positive educational role models, theories, research legacies, and their social activism inspired the chapter included here.

Marija Pejičić is a PhD student and teaching assistant in the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Philosophy, at the University of Niš. Her teaching and research areas focus mainly in the area of interpersonal relations, specifically, communication and emotional experience.

Vesna Petrović is a Professor of Psychology at the Union University of Belgrade, where she has served as head of the master’s program in psychotherapy. She is an integrative psychotherapist, founder and director of the Serbian Association for Integrative Psychotherapy, and national representative of Serbia in the European Association for Psychotherapy. Her research has addressed issues in mental health, positive psychology, trauma psychology, integrative psychotherapy, and systemic family psychotherapy.

Wendy‐Ann Smith is a registered psychologist in her native country Australia and her current home France. She is the co‐editor of Positive Psychology Coaching in the Workplace (in press) and author in the domains of positive and coaching psychology, specifically in the domains of positive leadership, strengths and emotions coaching, and coaching for high quality relationships. She is a reviewer for the European Journal of Applied Positive Psychology and co‐leads the French chapter for the International Society for Coaching Psychology. She is an executive coach at high ranking international and French business schools and teaches in the domains of positive and coaching psychology at both French and UK academic institutions. She founded her first coaching psychology practice in Australia, Inspirations Coaching and Development and has translated that to France with her positive psychology business Eclorev Coaching.

Robert J. Sternberg is a Professor of Human Development at Cornell University and honorary professor of psychology at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. His BA is from Yale, his PhD from Stanford, and he holds 13 honorary doctorates. He is a past winner of the Grawemeyer Award in Psychology and the William James and James McKeen Cattell Awards from the Association for Psychological Science. He is past‐president of the American Psychological Association and the Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences. He has been cited over 184,000 times in the professional literature, with an h index of 207. He is the author of Adaptive Intelligence (in press).

Sara Wilf is a doctoral student in the Department of Social Welfare at the University of California, Los Angeles. She researches the development and practice of youth civic engagement with a focus on youth activism on social media. She received her BA from Brown University and her MPA from Columbia University.

Everett L. Worthington Jr. is Commonwealth Professor Emeritus at Virginia Commonwealth University. He continues an active research, writing, and speaking career studying forgiveness, humility, hope, gratitude, patience, and other positive psychology topics. He originated the REACH Forgiveness intervention, which has been investigated in over 30 randomized control trials and continues to be studied and used around the globe. He also continues to do research in the hope‐focused approach to couple enrichment and therapy.

Laura Wray‐Lake is an Associate Professor of social welfare in the Luskin School of Public Affairs at University of California, Los Angeles. She received her PhD in human development and family studies from Penn State University. Her research focuses on how and why young people become civically engaged. She has published over 60 research articles and book chapters, including a 2020 SRCD Monograph on pathways to civic engagement among urban youth of color. Her work uses multiple methodologies and takes developmental, cultural, and contextual perspectives in studying youth civic engagement.

Dragan Žuljević, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law and Business Studies, Dr Lazar Vrkatić, Novi Sad, Serbia. He received his PhD in psychology with a concentration in psychotherapy treatment evaluation. He authored over 100 research reports and publications focused on psychological treatment evaluation, resilience, mental health, and positive psychology. His current research is focused on practice and evaluation of acceptance and commitment therapy and contextual behavioral science.