Yet in his latest book, Flourish, Seligman tries to provide something of a course correction for positive psychology. Seligman, the Zellerbach Family Professor of Psychology at the University of ...

Sept. 4 -- In his new book, Authentic Happiness, psychologist Martin Seligman says that the field of psychology has placed too much emphasis on relieving people's miseries, as opposed to building ...

The story of positive psychology starts, its founder often says, in 1997 in his rose garden. Martin Seligman had just been elected head of the American Psychological Association and was in search ...

NOTE: I recently published a review of Marty Seligman's new book, Flourish, in the journal Nature. It had to be significanctly abridged, and I provide the original version below. The premise of ...

Martin Seligman, founder of the positive psychology movement, will release an autobiography called The Hope Circuit tomorrow. In one passage of his book, ...

T hese days Martin Seligman, author of the best-selling book Authentic Happiness, is perhaps best known as a father of positive of psychology — the study of people’s strengths and virtues ...

SARAH GREEN: That was University of Pennsylvania’s Martin Seligman. The book is Flourish, and the article, “Building Resilience” appears in the April issue of HBR.

Using Seligman's work, the book alleges, the two tried to break down detainee resistance to facilitate confessions. According to Mayer, Mitchell "cited the uses of Learned Helplessness" in his work.

This spring, Albany Academy presented a Distinguished Alumni Award to Martin Seligman, who graduated in 1960. This child of Albany went on to become one of the world's foremost psychologists. He ...

Martin E.P. Seligman, Ph.D., is the Director of the Penn Positive Psychology Center and Zellerbach Family Professor of Psychology in the Penn Department of Psychology.