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Learned Optimism by Martin Seligman My best bits By Ella Duvall

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Learned Optimism by Martin Seligman

My best bits

By Ella Duvall

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Why a book review?• Inspiring authorSeligman’s research launched his career

• Paradigm breaking researchLearned helplessness debunked Behaviourism

Broad range of applications Workplace, health, schools, mental health…gambling!

• Self-help based on research Presents a case of optimism being optimal and can be learned.

masters

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Seligman and Maier (1967):

Condition 1: dogs received shocks which they could control

Condition 2: dogs received shocks which they did not control

Condition 3: dogs received no shocks

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Why a book review?• Inspiring authorSeligman’s research launched his career

• Paradigm breaking researchLearned helplessness debunked Behaviourism

Broad range of applications Workplace, health, schools, mental health…gambling!

• Self-help based on research Presents a case of optimism being optimal and can be learned.

masters

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What is optimism?

“The basis of optimism does not lie in positive phrases or images of victory, but in the way you think about causes” Seligman.

• Optimists have a ‘temporary’, ‘specific’ and ‘external’ attributional style of bad events

• Measured Attribution Style Questionnaire (ASQ) and Content Analysis Verbatim Explanations (CAVE)

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What is so good about optimism?

•Bouncing back from defeat

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What is so good about optimism?

•Bouncing back from defeat

•Success in work and play

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What is so good about optimism?

•Success in work and play

•Bouncing back from defeat

•Good health

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Causal model of mental states in health

Loss pessimism catecholamine depletion

endorphin secretion depletion immune

supression

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What is so good about optimism?

•Success in work and play

•Bouncing back from defeat

•Good health

•Good mental health- fewer depressions

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Are there any benefits to pessimism?

• Rational and realist

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Are there any benefits to pessimism?

• Rational and realist

• Appropriateness

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Are there any benefits to pessimism?

• Rational and realist

• Appropriateness

• Safer decisions

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Can you change your levels of optimism ?.. Yes!• Why? We aren’t all natural optimists

• How? Change explanatory style is the foundation of CBT

1) Distraction 2) Disputation 3) Distancing

• When? Seligman proposes flexible optimism

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Some extra take home points about -Research Methods-

• Seligiman has built a research career in the face of a lot skepticism

• “your critic was really your ally helping you advance on reality”

• Seligman’s research experiments were simple and well designed

• Methods: Quanti and quali designs

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To conclude, I have chosen to present about a book today for the

richness in personality and history it supplies for a research field.

Thank you for listening.


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