Quality of Life Research Center
Founded in 1999 by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Jeanne Nakamura as one of positive psychology’s original research sites, the Quality of Life Research Center (QLRC) studies positive functioning in context – including such human strengths as engagement, creativity, intrinsic motivation, and responsibility – to understand those aspects of human experience that make life worth living.
The Center conducts research and supports investigation and cultivation of the quality of life by providing a center for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and visiting scholars to meet and work and by sponsoring lectures, convenings, and publications for the wider community.