Martin Seligman | University of Pennsylvania Department of Psychology

Zellerbach Family Professor of Psychology; Director of the Positive Psychology Center

Department:

Psychology

Education:

AB, Philosophy, Princeton University; Ph.D., Psychology, University of Pennsylvania

Address:

Positive Psychology Center, 3701 Market St. Room 205

Phone:

215-898-7173

Email:

seligman@psych.upenn.edu

Personal Page

Lab Page

Research Themes:

Psychopathology and Psychotherapy

Memory and Learning

Positive Psychology

Specific Research Areas:

Positive Psychology, optimism, learned helplessness, and depression

Research Synopsis:

Positive Psychology, optimism, learned helplessness, depression, and comprehensive soldier fitness.

Dr. Seligman will be accepting new graduate students for admission in fall 2012.

Appointments:

Psychology Graduate Group

Advisees:

Alejandro Adler-Braun [Psychology Graduate Student]
Marie Forgeard [Psychology Graduate Student]
Peggy Kern [Post-doc]
Young Kim [Post-doc]
Ann Roepke [Psychology Graduate Student]

Representative Publications:

Seligman, M.E.P., Flourish (2011) N.Y.: Simon & Schuster

Seligman, M., Gillham, J., Reivich, K., Linkins, M., & Ernst, R. (in press). Positive Education. Oxford Review of Education.

Seligman, M & Kahana, M. (2009). Unpacking Intuition. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 4(4), 399-402.

Seligman, M.E.P. (2008). Positive Health. Applied psychology: An international review, 57, 3-18.

Seligman, M.E.P., Rashid, T., & Parks, A.C. (2006). Positive psychotherapy. American Psychologist, 61, 774-788.

Seligman, M. E P, Steen, T., Park, N., & Peterson, C. (2005). Positive psychology progress: Empirical validation of interventions. American Psychologist, 60, 410-421.

Peterson, Christopher & Seligman, M.E.P. (2004). Character strengths and virtues: A handbook and classification. Washington, D.C.: APA Press and Oxford University Press.

Seligman, M.E.P. (2002). Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment. New York: Free Press/Simon and Schuster.

Chirot, D., & Seligman, M.E.P. (Eds.) (2001). Ethnopolitical warfare: Causes, consequences, and possible solutions. Washington, D.C.: APA Press.

Seligman, M.E.P., Walker, E., & Rosenhan, D.L. (2001). Abnormal psychology. (4th ed.) New York: W.W. Norton.

Gillham, J.E. (Ed). (2000). The Science of Optimism and Hope: Research Essays in Honor of Martin E. P. Seligman. Radnor, PA: Templeton Foundation Press.

Seligman, M.E.P. (1998). Learned Optimism. Second edition. New York: Pocket Books (Simon and Schuster).

Seligman, M.E.P., Reivich, K., Jaycox, L., and Gillham, J. (1995). The Optimistic Child. New York: Houghton Mifflin.

Buchanan, G. and Seligman, M.E.P. (Eds.). (1995). Explanatory Style. Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum.

Seligman, M.E.P. (1994). What You Can Change and What You Can't. New York: Knopf.

Seligman, M.E.P. (1991). Helplessness: On Depression, Development, and Death. Second edition. New York: W.H. Freeman.