learned opbookreview
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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
Shuttle box
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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.