# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/martin-seligman
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:59:04.564Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/martin-seligman"
name: "Martin Seligman"
slug: "martin-seligman"
description: "Martin Elias Peter Seligman 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."
tagline: "American psychologist and writer"
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birthDate: "1942-08-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump