Learning nurtures our natural drive for progress and self-actualization. Small, daily learning habits can build long-term ...

The story of positive psychology starts, its founder often says, in 1997 in his rose garden. Martin Seligman had just been elected head of the American Psychological Association and was in search ...

Is happiness overrated? 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 ...

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 explores the science of happiness and its implications for personal well-being.

It was espoused by the psychologist and author Martin Seligman. He contends that the personal experience of happiness can be explained with the following formula: ...

“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.

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 ...

Martin Seligman, a professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, is determined to find the principles that underlie the good life.

More Claremont Graduate University Along with the theory of flow, Dr. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi co-founded the field of positive psychology alongside Dr. Martin Seligman.