For more than a decade, Aaron Beck and Martin Seligman have been meeting in Beck’s high-rise apartment located right in the center of the historic Rittenhouse neighborhood of Philadelphia. “Have I ...

Can Martin Seligman's PERMA model transform Police Week from a solemn memorial into a psychologically generative experience?

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 ...

R ecently, The Chronicle Review published “Positive Psychology Goes to War,” a long article adapted from my book, The Quick Fix: Why Fad Psychology Can’t Cure Our Social Ills. In it, I provided some ...

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 ...

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 seems an unlikely man to lead the field of psychology, much less the rest of humanity, into the realm of human joy. The 60-year-old former president of the American Psychological ...

Maybe there’s a science to happiness. A set of principles we could study, master, then apply to the disappointments, disasters and dirty dishes in our own lives. Whether gloomy by nature or not, we’d ...

Recently published book "The Dark Side" by author and New Yorker writer Jane Mayer ties the work of UniversityofPennsylvania professor and psychologist Martin Seligman to interrogation techniques used ...

Kellerman is a physician, the chief product officer, and the chief innovation officer at BetterUp, a coaching platform in San Francisco. Seligman is the Zellerbach Family Professor of Psychology and ...