Martin Seligman
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). He was President of the American Psychological Association in 1998, during which one of his presidential initiatives was the promotion of Positive Psychology as a field of scientific study. He is a leading authority in the fields of Positive Psychology, resilience, learned helplessness, depression, optimism and pessimism. He is also a recognized authority on interventions that prevent depression, and build strengths and well-being. He has written more than 350 scholarly publications and 30 books.
IOC Resources by Martin Seligman
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Over the last thirty years, Positive Psychology has gone from just an idea to a scientifically grounded discipline....
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A national bestseller, Authentic Happiness launched the revolutionary new science of Positive Psychology—and sparked a coast-to-coast debate on the nature...
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"Character" has become a front-and-center topic in contemporary discourse, but this term does not have a fixed meaning....
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With this unprecedented promise, internationally esteemed psychologist Martin Seligman begins Flourish, his first book in ten years—and the first to prese...
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Some teachers are dramatically more effective than others but traditional indicators of competence (e.g....
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How are character strengths related to recovery?...
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People commonly experience positive psychological changes after adversity, but little is known about how this growth happens....
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The theory of strengths also implies a theory of disorder that proceeds from knowing what is right in a person: pathology is the opposite, or the absence,...
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The VIA® Classification of 24 Character Strengths
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Implementing Positive Psychology...
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