"Martin Seligman"

Pragmatic prospection is the ability to think deeply about the future in order to identify and to work productively toward goals. It involves imagining desirable future outcomes, setting sensible goals, making plans, and flexibly executing those plans. We conducted an exploratory survey of full-time working U.S. adults (N = 1541), measuring individual differences in pragmatic prospection along with life- and job-related outcomes. All data from the present survey are publicly available. Pragmatic prospection correlated positively with positive outcomes (e.g. life satisfaction, work productivity), correlated negatively with negative outcomes (e.g. anxiety, depression), and tracked with other adaptive personality traits associated with achievement and psychological adjustment (e.g. high conscientiousness, low neuroticism). These results point to pragmatic prospection as an important component of flourishing, both in the …

Emotions, long deemed a distinctly human characteristic, guide a repertoire of behaviors, e.g., promoting risk-aversion under negative emotional states or generosity under positive ones. The question of whether Artificial Intelligence (AI) can possess emotions remains elusive, chiefly due to the absence of an operationalized consensus on what constitutes 'emotion' within AI. Adopting a pragmatic approach, this study investigated the response patterns of AI chatbots—specifically, large language models (LLMs)—to various emotional primes. We engaged AI chatbots as one would human participants, presenting scenarios designed to elicit positive, negative, or neutral emotional states. Multiple accounts of OpenAI's ChatGPT Plus were then tasked with responding to inquiries concerning investment decisions and prosocial behaviors. Our analysis revealed that ChatGPT-4 bots, when primed with positive, negative, or …

Pessimism has an important place as a predisposing factor to depression, and relieving pessimism is crucial in the course of cognitive therapy. In contrast, optimism faces an uphill battle for recognition as an independent construct. First, optimism is often seen as a Panglossian perspective that deludes a person into vulnerability to disappointment. A second challenge for the construct of optimism is that it has been sometimes positioned as merely the lack of pessimism and that the best one could ever do in life was to minimize suffering. The third challenge is that it is often seen as only the polar opposite of pessimism. This chapter defines optimism and pessimism and differentiates them from similar constructs. It separates optimism from pessimism and pessimism's behavioral correlates. The chapter also connects both to depressive symptoms and evaluates treatments on optimism, contrasting them with the usual …

Entrez dans la nouvelle ère de la psychologie validée par les neurosciences et découvrez, dans cet ouvrage complet et nourri par de nombreux questionnaires, tests et applications concrètes, comment fabriquer du bonheur dans votre vie grâce aux ressources de la psychologie positive. Martin EP Seligman a fondé et conceptualisé la psychologie positive, une approche de guérison profonde de l’être qui a révolutionné la psychologie depuis plusieurs années. En vous concentrant non pas sur la cause du mal-être, mais sur vos forces et vos ressources personnelles, vous parviendrez mécaniquement à créer du bonheur, à guérir spontanément de vos blessures émotionnelles et à transformer votre qualité de vie. Le père fondateur de la psychologie positive vous guide de façon très pratique sur le chemin du bonheur.

Mental health treatment may be more effective if as much attention is paid to the intact resources of patients as to the deficits involved in their psychiatric illness. This chapter summarizes the contributions of Positive Psychology research and practice in education, work, health, and clinical domains, and offers useful insights regarding the integration of positive psychology concepts with traditional mental health treatment. The PERMA model of wellbeing and character strengths, emphasizing positive emotion, engagement, resilience, meaning, and accomplishment, is the basis for significant empirical evidence to support the use of positive interventions in a wide range of clinical and non-clinical settings. The emerging field of Positive Psychiatry is based on these principles and their application in psychiatric settings.

Si vous souffrez de dépression, de crises d’angoisse, de stress, de surpoids, de phobies ou d’addictions, vous apprendrez ici les meilleures techniques et stratégies reconnues scientifiquement pour vaincre ou soulager vos difficultés. Martin Seligman est le chef de file d’un courant innovant de la psychologie contemporaine: la psychologie positive, qui se concentre sur comment rendre les gens heureux. Selon le célèbre chercheur, pour amorcer un changement réel et positif dans nos vies, il est essentiel de mieux nous connaître, d’accepter nos limites et de prendre la responsabilité de ce que nous pouvons changer. Un livre qui restaure notre confiance en nous et notre aptitude au bonheur.

Martin EP Seligman, né le 12 août 1942, est un chercheur en psychologie et professeur à l'Université de Pennsylvanie. Il a publié plus de 200 articles dans des revues scientifiques. Parmi les prix et distinctions reçus, l’American Psychological Association l'a récompensé en 2006 pour sa contribution à la recherche fondamentale en psychologie [1]. En 2002, une étude sur les 100 psychologues les plus éminents du XX e siècle[2] le classait au 13 e rang des auteurs les plus cités dans les manuels d’initiation à la psychologie et le 31 e plus éminent toutes catégories confondues.

This chapter, mainly theoretical in orientation, also reviews recent research on resilience and gender. The theoretical orientation represented here is known as relational-cultural theory. Dr. Jordan posits that gender and culture interact in multilevel and complex ways such that the concept of resilience should be applied in extremely different and specific ways in females versus males. To the extent that girls feel they are a part of mutually growth-fostering relationships in which they care about others and are cared about as well, they will experience a sense of flexibility, worth, clarity, creativity, zest, and desire for more connection.