Martin E.P. Seligman, Ph.D., 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 ...

This experiment generated the infamous theory of learned helplessness, introduced in 1967 by psychologists Dr. Martin Seligman and Dr. Steven Maier. In modern application, the theory of learned ...

Martin Seligman, often regarded as the father of positive psychology, has described multiple visions of what it means to live happily, including the Pleasant Life (Hollywood’s view of happiness ...