Word: seligman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...head of the company approached psychologist Martin Seligman at the University of Pennsylvania and invited him to test some of his theories about the importance of optimism in people's success. When optimists fail, he has found, they attribute the failure to something they can change, not some innate weakness that they are helpless to overcome. And that confidence in their power to effect change is self-reinforcing. Seligman tracked 15,000 new workers who had taken two tests. One was the company's regular screening exam, the other Seligman's test measuring their levels of optimism. Among...
...sweeping case was virtually unprecedented among SEC actions, which are typically narrower in scope. "In effect, the SEC reviewed a course of conduct that stretched over a decade and said it was systematically bad," noted Joel Seligman, a University of Michigan law professor. Concedes a Prudential spokesman: "We made some real mistakes in terms of how the partnerships were marketed and sold." In all, some 400,000 individual investors lost money on the deals...
...Faculty recruitment and faculty tenuring should be their number one priority," said history concentrator Gary P. Seligman '94, "I think they should get people to teach tutorial before they start fixing...