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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ever had someone tell you to just cheer up? Did it drive you crazy? Well, turns out that someone telling you to “be happy” isn’t just annoying—it’s also wildly unhelpful. “‘Happy’ is a pretty useless ...

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 ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Lynne Malcolm: Hi, It's All in the Mind on RN. Lynne Malcolm with you. Today the second part of ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. This is Part One of a two-part interview with Dr Seligman. A pioneer of positive psychology, Martin ...

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 ...