Positive psychology was developed to counter psychology’s focus on “the bad stuff.” Positive psychology studies psychosocial ...

Martin Seligman, often regarded as the father of positive psychology, has described multiple visions of what it means to live happily, including the Pleasant Life (Hollywood’s view of happiness ...

This experiment generated the infamous theory of learned helplessness, introduced in 1967 by psychologists Dr. Martin Seligman and Dr. Steven Maier. In modern application, the theory of learned ...

Inspired by her mentor Martin Seligman, Mangelsdorf argues that helping others is one of the most effective ways to boost our mood. There's a misconception that positive psychology ignores human ...