Martin E.P. Seligman, Ph.D., is the Director of the ... He is a leading authority in the fields of Positive Psychology, resilience, learned helplessness, depression, optimism and pessimism.

Are people born with resilience or can it be acquired through ... A famous psychologist, Martin Seligman, once conducted experiments where he asked students to perform two tasks (Do something ...

The term was coined in 1967 by the American psychologists Martin Seligman and Steven Maier ... from a young age and by cultivating resilience, self-worth, and self-compassion.

One of the most significant findings in psychology in the last twenty years is that individuals can choose the way they think,' Seligman wrote. He argued that, through resilience-building ...