As I said in my last blog I am posting observations about various people that I heard speak at a conference held in Sydney in early December: Mind & Its Potential. Today the spotlight falls on Dr.

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 ...

One of the great imponderables of human society is how much of our religion, psychology, philosophy and art through the millennia has been dedicated to the understanding and amelioration of suffering ...

Martin Seligman, a professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, will speak at a Brigham Young University forum Tuesday, March 24, at 11:05 a.m. in the Marriott Center. The forum will be ...

Martin Seligman, founder of positive psychology, to receive inaugural Tang Prize and speak at University of Toronto Martin Seligman will visit the University of Toronto to receive the inaugural Tang ...

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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 ...

This spring, Albany Academy presented a Distinguished Alumni Award to Martin Seligman, who graduated in 1960. This child of Albany went on to become one of the world's foremost psychologists. He is a ...

Martin Seligman with Chief of Staff of the Army, Gen. George W. Casey Jr. Source: The U.S. Army, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Martin Seligman, professor of psychology at the University of ...