Martin Seligman
Author of Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life
About the Author
Martin e.p. Seligman, Ph.D., the Zellerbach Family Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, works on positive psychology, learned helplessness, depression, ethnopolitical conflict, and optimism. Dr. Seligman's work has been supported by the National Institute of Mental Health, the show more National Science Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the MacArthur Foundation. show less
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Fox Leadership Professor of Psychology
Director, Positive Psychology Center
President, American Psychological Association, 1998
Fox Leadership Professor of Psychology
Director, Positive Psychology Center
President, American Psychological Association, 1998
Works by Martin Seligman
Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment (2002) 1,211 copies
What You Can Change and What You Can't: The Complete Guide to Successful Self-Improvement (1993) 424 copies
The Optimistic Child: Proven Program to Safeguard Children from Depression & Build Lifelong Resilience (1995) 408 copies
El circuito de la esperanza : el viaje de un psicólogo de la desesperanza al optimismo (2018) 4 copies
Martin Seligman 3 Books Collection Set (The Optimistic Child, Learned Optimism, Flourish) (2019) 2 copies
Ehe õnn : uuest positiivsest psühholoogiast, mille teadvustamine aitab leida ja avada oma loomuse ning kogeda selle… (2008) 2 copies
No puedo ser más alto pero puedo ser mejor : el tratamiento más adecuado para cada trastorno (1995) 2 copies
Fai fiorire la tua vita. Una nuova, rivoluzionaria visione della felicità e del benessere (2017) 1 copy
Associated Works
This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking (2012) — Contributor — 801 copies
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Mental Toughness (with bonus interview "Post-Traumatic Growth and Building Resilience" with… (2018) — Contributor — 116 copies
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- 1942-08-12
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- Albany, New York, USA
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The model proposed in this book is:
• Positive emotion (of which happiness and life satisfaction are all aspects)
• Engagement
• Relationships
• Meaning
• Achievement
(Page 24)
I read a Kindle edition, and liked how references were done. There would be a phrase in colored text. Clicking on it took me to that endnote. Going back was just as easy. (Either the back arrow, or click on the colored text at the start of the endnote.)
A Kindle disappointment: The Table of Contents on an iPad had ten chapters, but on the Mac Kindle reader, instead of 10 chapters it just lists: Part 1 & Part 2.
In summary: Authentic Happiness is more engaging reading. This book gives some information on what has happened in the intervening nine years.… (more)