Talk:Martin Seligman

message: Many, for whatever reason, are misquoting Meyer's book. Seligman's theory of "learned helplessness" was used by those who developed torture techniques, but a statement was added to the article claiming that Meyer's book alleges that Seligman "assisted" in the process. The source for this statement was the web site The Daily Dish. That very same web site also says the following: "Psychologist Marty Seligman has objected to the notion that he 'assisted' the torture program of the president in Gitmo and throughout the war on terror. Jane Mayer never actually used that word others have in describing Mayer's book." Unless we have a much more well-documented connection, Wikipedia should steer clear of libel. -DoctorW 00:33, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: These comments seem to apply to the first deleted block of text, regarding the Andrew Sullivan article, but not to the second deleted block, which discusses the Harper's article, which contains verbatim material from Mayer.  I will re-add a cleaned up version of the latter, sticking strictly to factual material.  This is important material and shouldn't just be lost.  Mkcmkc (talk) 03:11, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  I removed this section for a few reasons. First, a single article is not sufficiently noteworthy to receive such attention in this section. Additionally, the content of that paragraph was highly inflammatory without appropriate basis in fact. Seligman's use of animals in testing is totally normal in science and in psychology. He was studying an observed phenomenon to determine how it might be treated, not for the purposes of inducing depression as an end, but for resisting it -- the exact nature of the contract in question. Seligman is widely respected as a psychologist and his research is widely respected. Evidence for this is readily available even in this same article -- dedicating such a portion of his entry to speculative claims by a single source would be a travesty.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.56.12.125 (talk) 17:14, 12 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Allegation of "learned helplessness" connection to development of torture techniques

message: I think if we keep the section about how Seligman "tortured dogs" (which is at the moment written in a very accusatory way), the following quotation by Seligman himself on the issue will be useful in framing the conversation. He said, in his book Flourish, "I should mention that this experiment- published in Science in 1982- was the last time that I have been involved in an animal experiment, and I want to tell you why: on the ethical side, I am an animal lover- my life has continually been enriched by our dogs at home. So I found it very difficult to inflict suffering on animals for any purpose at all, even a humanitarian purpose." (Seligman, 2011, page 187) Really, we should add the SELIGMAN HIMSELF CONDONES THE EXPERIMENTS. Hugely important part of the puzzle here! I'd like a consensus before making this change, however. Skiingxmoose (talk) 19:22, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Seligman on his own experiments 

message: Esrever, you may want to give specific suggestion on improvements to references. -DoctorW 05:49, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Improving references

message: I'm sure the The Daily Pennsylvanian is a fine student newspaper, but why should we think one of its contributors is in a position to determine who is the "father of modern psychology"? Whatever that even means. 72.229.55.73 (talk) 02:58, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with you!  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.211.210.117 (talk) 11:30, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Father of ...?

message: Added a mention of Seligman and Abramson's attributional reformulation to learned helplessness. Citation to follow. 
Alindsay9 (talk) 22:10, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Attributional theory 

message: The text about PERMA is very weakly/poorly written. I may come back to this and try to rewrite it.
"While presenting "Flourish" to the Royal Society of Arts,[12] Seligman articulated an account of the good life, which consisted of five elements under the acronym PERMA:"
It's weird to open the statement the it is, because the book "Flourish" has been released and he very thoroughly defines PERMA in the book. I think however, it would be nice to read someone elses summary of PERMA online. It might be useful mentioning how PERMA was derived. Skiingxmoose (talk) 05:19, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I made the edits needed to reflect these wants. I think it need some clean-up though Skiingxmoose (talk) 00:13, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  PERMA 

message: Substituted at 23:19, 29 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment comment

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message: What do the initials M.E.P. stand for? The article clarifies that the M. stands for "Martin" but does not say what the E. and the P. stand for. Vorbee (talk) 17:12, 9 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: What do the initials stand for?