Learned helplessness fascinated me as a psychology student at the University of Toronto. Seligman and Maier in 1967 came up with the term to describe a passive state in the face of shock. They ...

"'Learned helplessness,' a term coined by Martin Seligman, the eminent psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania...refers to what happens if rewards and punishments are not tied to merit: People ...

"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time." – Thomas Edison Imagine facing a series of unfortunate events where no matter what you ...

The Army earlier this year steered a $31 million contract to a psychologist whose work formed the psychological underpinnings of the Bush administration’s torture program. The Army awarded the “sole ...

Have you ever felt powerless to the point that you pretty much give up and stop trying to change your circumstances? If you’ve ever convinced yourself that everything wrong with your life is doomed to ...

We’ve been told that one of the keys to becoming a successful leader and to creating a successful life is to see things as they are and no worse. But if you’ve been beaten down and suffered setbacks ...

Tragedy and crisis are at the top, middle, and bottom of the news. It is deeply personal, profoundly overwhelming, and angering. Importantly, people with connections to the international war zones or ...