Activity Description Students complete the Brief Resilience Scale (BRS) and Diener's Flourishing Scale, then pool paired scores from 9 classmates to compute a Pearson r. The lab examines whether the ability to bounce back from adversity predicts a fuller, more engaged and purposeful life. Students explain the psychological mechanism linking resilience to flourishing — including adaptive coping, maintenance of relationships through adversity, and maintained sense of purpose — and evaluate a fic