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This story was written by Alyssa Schwenk, Daily PennsylvanianRecently published book The Dark Side by author and New Yorker writer Jane Mayer ties the work of UniversityofPennsylvania professor and psychologist Martin Seligman to interrogation techniques used by the CIA to extract confessions from detainees allegedly linked to al Qaeda.Seligman, the father of a Summer Pennsylvanian news editor, is known for developing the theory of learned helplessness. The theory is based on experiments he led in which dogs that experienced a random shock that they believed they could not control showed signs of depression and apathy to their situation. Extrapolated to the human condition, Seligman s theory of learned helplessness predicts that those who believe they have little control over their situation often become passive and apathetic to their state. Mayer s book alleges that Seligm stanley en mexico an s research heavily stanley cup influenced the psychologists that developed CIA interrogation techniques at the Guantanamo Bay military prison. But in a pre-publication review of the book s content, Harper s Magazine writer Scott Horton writes that Seligman assisted in the development of their interrogation techniques. This statement has since circulated on several psychology-related blogs and is a claim that Seligman unequivocally denies. The allegation that I provided a stanley fr ssistance in the process of torture is completely false, Seligman said in a wri