Author

Books by Martin E. P. Seligman

Martin E. P. Seligman is Zellerbach Family Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania and a former president of the American Psychological Association. He is the founder of positive psychology and the developer of learned helplessness theory, which he first proposed in the 1960s based on animal conditioning experiments. His books include Learned Optimism, Authentic Happiness, and The Optimistic Child. He has been consistently among the most cited psychologists in the world and has shaped both academic research and clinical practice across fifty years.