Who Is Martin Seligman's Authentic Happiness?

Martin Seligman is a widely known psychologist from New York. Seligman is most easily recognizable from the fact that he was the founder of Positive Psychology. He is also the author of multiple books, including “Authentic Happiness.” “Authentic Happiness” was published over a decade ago, yet it is still considered to be a classic in Positive Psychology. “Authentic Happiness” discusses how happiness is not unauthentic, which was what was previously believed, but rather, its authentic. Seligman separates the book into three different sections: Positive Emotion, Strength and Virtue, and In The Mansion of Life. Seligman wrote “Authentic Happiness” from his perspective, but he keeps his language to a level where the average American would be ale to understand what he was saying. Seligman uses his strengths as a psychologist and an author to entice the reader into evaluating their own virtues as they read.
Seligman had many different studies, or tests, to review. The first study starts with a 180 nuns who all lived the same type of life, they were all from the same social and economic classes. The nuns who had a more positive standing tended to live longer than the nuns who did not. Seligman also reviewed a study on college seniors and their smiles. The women who showed a genuine smile often had a better well being and marital status. Seligman discusses the differences between positive psychology and happyology. Happyology is the study the essential nature of happiness. Positive psychology is about finding “meaning of those happy but not unhappy moments,” and not about hedonism, the pursuit of pleasure. Positive psychology is about finding authentic happiness and your strength and virtue, instead of finding the shortcuts for happiness and the emotions associated with happiness, such as joy, happiness, and