A growing and notable field
As the leading advocate of positive psychology, Seligman has been exceptionally successful at catalyzing and uniting the efforts of the many distinguished scientists who have become some of the key players in the positive psychology movement. These include the Positive Psychology Steering Committee (Csikszentmihalyi, Diener, Jamieson, and Vaillant) and the leaders of numerous positive psychology research centers. (Seligman, 2005).13
Other notable figures included the late Chris Peterson, a top expert in the field of hope and optimism who headed up the Values-in-Action project that led to the VIA classification of strengths and virtues (Peterson & Seligman, 2004).14
Number of positive psychology-related journal documents per year, as a percentage of all journal documents that year in the data-set (citable documents only). (Rusk & Waters, 2013)15
1K Club
