Faculty
Martin Seligman, Ph.D.
- Subject areas
- Positive Psychology, Meaning and Happiness Theory
Martin E. P. Seligman, Ph.D. (b. 1942), is the Zellerbach Family Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. He is widely known as the founder of positive psychology and for his earlier research on learned helplessness and depression. He earned his B.A. in philosophy summa cum laude from Princeton University and his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. He served as President of the American Psychological Association in 1998 and has authored more than 350 scholarly publications and 30 books.
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