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Martin Elias Peter Seligman (/ ˈ s ɛ l ɪ ɡ m ə n /; born August 12, 1942) is an American psychologist, educator, and author of self-help books. Seligman is a strong promoter within the scientific community of his theories of well-being and positive psychology. [1] His theory of learned helplessness is popular among scientific and clinical ...
Dr. Martin E.P. Seligman is the Director of the Penn Positive Psychology Center and Zellerbach Family Professor of Psychology in the Penn Department of Psychology. He is also Director of the Penn Master of Applied Positive Psychology program (MAPP).
Martin Seligman’s most famous work may be his research on the theory of learned helplessness. “Learned helplessness is a term specifying an organism learning to accept and endure unpleasant stimuli, and unwilling to avoid them, even when it is avoidable.”
Martin Seligman is a pioneer of Positive Psychology (the term itself was coined by Abraham Maslow), not simply because he has a systematic theory about why happy people are happy, but because he uses the scientific method to explore happiness.
Martin Seligman, psychologist and author of self-help books, is known for his theory of learned helplessness and his work in positive psychology.
Martin Seligman, the psychologist who first described learned helplessness, identified three main features that characterize this behavior: Lack of motivation: When faced with new challenges or difficult situations, people with learned helplessness often fail to respond or even try.
As one of the theory’s central proponents, Martin Seligman has helped psychology move away from a sole focus on pathology and illness by supporting clients as they identify and build upon their strengths and set goals to direct meaningful behavior (Seligman, 2011).
By shifting psychology’s focus from pessimism and gloom to optimism and hope, Martin Seligman echoes Victorian Robert Louis Stevenson’s dictum “There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.”
Positive psychology: An introduction. Learned helplessness in humans: critique and reformulation. Positive psychology progress: empirical validation of interventions. Learned helplessness:...
Martin Seligman, a renowned psychologist, made key contributions to the field of positive psychology. His research led to a shift in focus from pathology to the promotion of well-being, and his ideas have had a profound impact on modern psychology.