"Courageous Optimism" is my answer to Dr. Martin E. P. Seligman's challenge when he asked me, "What allows a police officer to run into gunfire when everyone else is running away?" ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. This is Part One of a two-part interview with Dr Seligman. A pioneer of positive psychology, Martin ...

Sept. 4 -- If you want to be happy, forget about winning the lottery, getting a nose job, or securing a raise. In his new book, Authentic Happiness, psychologist Martin Seligman argues that overall ...

As president of the American Psychological Association in 1998, Martin Seligman challenged the psychological community to radically change its approach. For too long, he charged, psychology had been ...

But according to Martin Seligman, widely considered the founder of the field, there’s more to positive psychology than happiness—and, more importantly, there’s more to life than happiness as well.

In this next series of posts, I am going to critically examine a few major lines of thought that are currently receiving much attention in the field. I am going to start by evaluating Martin ...

Sonja Lyubomirsky welcomes a call for society to encourage people to 'flourish'. You have full access to this article via your institution. The premise of positive psychology — that it is as important ...

Sometimes people just care about winning -- no matter the cost. Consider bridge players who play for hours without smiling, not making money or making friends. “They wanted to win for its own sake, ...

Seligman, a psychology professor at the University of Pennsylvania and the guru of the "positive psychology" movement, abandons his previous emphasis on happiness, which he now views as simplistic, to ...

Former Penn Professor Martin Seligman's research on "learned helplessness" may have influenced the CIA's controversial torture techniques. Credit: D. Myles Cullen/Public Domain. The CIA’s “enhanced ...