This scholar wrote a paper comparing typical “efficacy study” methodology to a flawed Consumer Reports survey on the effectiveness of psychotherapy. This man co-authored “Agency in ancient China” with his former grad student Yukun Zhao, who in 2023 used all of this man’s writings without consent to train an AI chatbot based on him. With two younger researchers, this man found that people who blame internal, stable, and global causes for life events tend to have an “attributional style” conducive to depression. This man and Christopher Peterson co-wrote the book Character Strengths and Virtues as a counterpart to the DSM. This man’s book Flourish presents the five-attribute PERMA model of well-being. For 10 points, name this American founder of positive psychology whose dog-shocking experiments underlie learned helplessness theory. ■END■
ANSWER: Martin Seligman [or Martin Elias Peter Seligman; prompt on Ask Martin by asking “what real person is that chatbot based on?”] (The younger researchers mentioned in the third line are Lyn Abramson and Carl L. von Baeyer.)
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