Re: learned--optimism vs. helplessness

Posted by Abby on May 16, 2000, at 20:20:13

In reply to Re: Overwhelmed ... a social cognitive aside, posted by bob on May 16, 2000, at 18:55:04

> > (Martin Seligman--here's your learned helplessness.)
>
> Sorry, but Marty's not into that anymore. He's into "learned optimism" (well, from a social cognitive standpoint, just about everything is learned) and, with Mike (it's so much easier to say than Mihaly) Csikszentmihalyi, is a proponent of "positive psychology".

I know that that research is about 25 years old or so, but learned optimism is just the flip side of [the treatment response to] depression---the learned helplessness part.--Abby

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