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understanding the psychological roots of optimism
by Susan C. Vaughan
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"In her book, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and researcher Susan C. Vaughan, M.D., offers fresh and helpful ways to understand optimism. Reality, she shows, is overrated; instead, it is healthy illusions that form the base of optimism. Optimism flows from our ability to interpret and remember our experiences in a positive light. If we can do this on a regular basis and if we can trust ourselves to moderate our own moods, then all the good things that flow from an optimistic view of life can be ours. Examining the origins of optimism in early life and offering new evidence for the role of biology in how we interpret our experience, Vaughan offers some unusual but proven tricks and techniques to fool the brain's circuitry into looking on the bright side."--Jacket.
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La psicología del optimismo: el vaso medio lleno o medio vacío
2004, Paidós
in Spanish
8449315778 9788449315770
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La psicologia del optimismo/ Understanding the psychological roots of optimism: El vaso medio lleno o medio vacio/ Half empty, half full (Paidos Saberes Cotidianos)
May 30, 2004, Ediciones Paidos Iberica
Paperback
in English
8449315778 9788449315770
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Half Empty, Half Full: Understanding the Psychological Roots of Optimism
May 3, 2001, Harvest Books
in English
015601100X 9780156011006
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Half empty, half full: understanding the psychological roots of optimism
2000, Harcourt
in English
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Half empty, half full: understanding the psychological roots of optimism
2000, Harcourt
in English
- 1st ed.
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