Positive psychology, the study of optimal human functioning, is an attempt to respond to the systematic bias inherent in psychology’s historical emphasis on mental illness rather than on mental wellness. Humanistic psychologists such as Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers developed theories along these lines, but without solid empirical support. The pioneering research of a new […]
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Dr. Martin Seligman: Martin Seligman on Learned helplessness
Dr. Martin Seligman started to research about Learned helplessness at University of Pennsylvania in 1967, as an extension of his interest in depression, when almost by accident Martin Seligman and his colleagues discovered that the conditioning of dogs led to outcomes that were opposite to the predictions of the then leading psychological theory of B.F. […]
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Dr. Martin Seligman together with Christopher Peterson is one of the founders of positive psychology. Martin Seligman conducted several studies on authentic happiness and learned optimism. Martin E. P. Seligman is the director of the Positive Psychology Center at the University of Pennsylvania. Seligman is the Robert A. Fox Leadership Professor of Psychology in the […]
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