{"id":77522,"date":"2025-12-11T21:51:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T21:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/csikszentmihalyi-mihaly-1934-2021\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T21:51:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T21:51:12","slug":"csikszentmihalyi-mihaly-1934-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/csikszentmihalyi-mihaly-1934-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Csikszentmihalyi, Mih\u00e1ly (1934\u20132021)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>American psychologist of Hungarian origin, known for his research on happiness, creativity, and subjective well-being. He is best known for his idea of &#8220;flow,&#8221; a special state that he studied for several decades. The state of flow can be considered the optimal state of intrinsic motivation, in which a person is fully involved in what he or she is doing (see Flow State (Autotelic Experience) in Chapter 1.10 Key Psychological Concepts in Positive Psychology).   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American psychologist of Hungarian origin, known for his research on happiness, creativity, and subjective well-being. He is best known for his idea of &#8220;flow,&#8221; a special state that he studied for several decades. The state of flow can be considered the optimal state of intrinsic motivation, in which a person is fully involved in what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[300],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5-1-distinguished-psychologists-and-their-contribution-to-the-development-of-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}