Martin Seligman had just been elected head of the American Psychological Association and was in ... and happiness. What Seligman named “positive psychology,” using a term coined in 1954 by ...

This is a lot coming from Seligman, who led the "positive psychology" movement with his 2002 bestseller, Authentic Happiness. He now says the book was off-target.

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.

Martin Seligman’s research suggests that each person has several “signature strengths.” Unlike natural abilities, such as physical strength or perfect pitch, these strengths are moral or ...

The “H” in Dr. Seligman’s formula stands for happiness. He suggests that happiness (H) is a combination of three factors: your “set point (S),” your “circumstances (C),” and your ...

“I actually detest the word ‘happiness,’ which is so overused that it has become almost meaningless,” wrote Martin Seligman, a professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania ...

Along with the theory of flow, Dr. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi co-founded the field of positive psychology alongside Dr. Martin Seligman. Together, they focused on happiness, well-being, and ...

Martin Seligman now thinks so, which may seem like an odd position for the founder of the positive psychology movement. As president of the American Psychological Association in the late 1990s, he ...