Robert Merton published an article indicating that in the history of Science the discovery of new ideas were never the province of a single persons but of many others working on the problem at the same time.
The “myth” of Positive Psychology is that Martin Seligman was the prime creator. Your assignment in two pages double spaced is to question this myth by finding the basic principles of Positive Psychology that were expressed by others, mainly in the Humanistic Psychology movement.
