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.

Sept. 4 -- In his new book, Authentic Happiness, psychologist Martin Seligman says that the field of psychology has placed too much emphasis on relieving people's miseries, as opposed to building ...

Sept. 4 -- If you want to be happy, forget about winning the lottery, getting a nose job, or securing a raise. In his new book, Authentic Happiness, psychologist Martin Seligman argues that ...

Martin Elias Peter Seligman (born 1942) is an American psychologist, educator, and author of self-help books. Seligman is a strong promoter within the scientific community of his theories of ...

Martin Seligman explores the science of happiness and its implications for personal well-being.

Martin Seligman's positive psychology has brought many benefits, but his conception of the field as a whole is lacking in theoretical and philosophical depth.

Martin Seligman, the father of Positive psychology, has taken a step back to look over the years of research in the field that he created and presided over. In his most recent book, Flourish, he ...

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 ...

But according to Martin Seligman, widely considered the founder of the field, there’s more to positive psychology than happiness—and, more importantly, there’s more to life than happiness as well.

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 ...