Martin Seligman Awarded Inaugural Wiley Prize in Psychology

Robert A. Fox Leadership Professor of Psychology Martin Seligman has been named the first recipient of the Wiley Prize in Psychology. Bestowed by the British Academy in partnership with publisher Wiley-Blackwell, this new prize awards £5,000 annually in recognition of excellence in research—alternately honoring lifetime achievement by an outstanding international scholar and promising early work by a U.K.-based psychologist. The prize is administered by the academy’s psychology section, which comprises 34 fellows elected for their eminence as psychology scholars and practitioners.

Director of the University’s Positive Psychology Center, Seligman is also the recipient of two Distinguished Scientific Contribution awards from the American Psychological Association, the Laurel Award of the American Association for Applied Psychology and Prevention, the William James Fellow and the James McKeen Cattell Fellow Awards of the American Psychological Society, and the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Society for Research in Psychopathology. His most recent book, Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment, was recognized with a 2002 Books for a Better Life Award.

The British Academy is the United Kingdom’s national academy for the humanities and social sciences. Its purpose is to inspire, recognize and support excellence and high achievement in the humanities and social sciences, throughout the U.K. and internationally, and to champion their role and value.

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