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An Interview with Marty Seligman

By John M. Grohol, PsyD
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Psychology today doesn’t have the well-known philosophical rock stars of yore, such as Freud or Skinner. What we do have are more complex thinkers who have spent decades researching more subtle human behaviors, such as, What kinds of behaviors, attitudes and activities lead to a …

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An Interview with Marty Seligman

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  1. I thought Seligmans’ work on helpless depression was valuable, but I hated his description of his experiments on puppies. Has he stopped stopped shocking puppies? I hope so. Nobody needs to do that to prove that when the game is rigged, you get depressed. That falls into the “d’oh” category.

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