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Martin Seligman

1942 - Today

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Martin Elias Peter Seligman (; born August 12, 1942) is an American psychologist, educator, and author of self-help books. Seligman is a strong promoter within the scientific community of his theories of well-being and positive psychology. His theory of learned helplessness is popular among scientific and clinical psychologists. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Seligman as the 31st most cited psychologist of the 20th century. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Martin Seligman is the 54th most popular psychologist (down from 53rd in 2019), the 1,119th most popular biography from United States (down from 845th in 2019) and the 18th most popular American Psychologist.

Martin Seligman is most famous for his work in the field of positive psychology. He is the author of the book "Learned Optimism" and the founder of the field of positive psychology.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Martin Seligman ranks 54 out of 235. Before him are Milton H. Erickson, Ernst Heinrich Weber, Elton Mayo, Kurt Koffka, Solomon Asch, and Sándor Ferenczi. After him are Antonio Damasio, Roger Wolcott Sperry, Raymond Cattell, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Pierre Janet, and Stanley Milgram.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Martin Seligman ranks 76. Before him are Neil Kinnock, Emmerson Mnangagwa, Vladimír Mečiar, Tobin Bell, Robert H. Grubbs, and Hissène Habré. After him are Françoise Dorléac, Wolfgang Schäuble, Carlos Reutemann, Junichiro Koizumi, Princess Irene of Greece and Denmark, and Peter Greenaway.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Martin Seligman ranks 1,119 out of 20,380. Before him are Robert F. Furchgott (1916), Hamilton O. Smith (1931), Sam Harris (1967), James Gunn (1966), Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1909), and Benjamin Guggenheim (1865). After him are Gena Rowlands (1930), Dickinson W. Richards (1895), Dashiell Hammett (1894), Kenneth Arrow (1921), Anne Sullivan (1866), and Charley Patton (1891).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In United States

Among psychologists born in United States, Martin Seligman ranks 18. Before him are Paul Ekman (1934), Jerome Bruner (1915), Albert Ellis (1913), Lawrence Kohlberg (1927), Alfred Kinsey (1894), and Milton H. Erickson (1901). After him are Roger Wolcott Sperry (1913), Stanley Milgram (1933), Leon Festinger (1919), Raymond Moody (1944), Philip Zimbardo (1933), and Mary Ainsworth (1913).

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