TY - BOOK AU - Segerstrom,Suzanne C TI - Breaking Murphy's law: how optimists get what they want from life-- and pessimists can too SN - 1593852096 (trade cloth) AV - BF 698.35.O57 S44.2006 PY - 2006/// CY - New York PB - Guilford KW - Optimism KW - Optimización KW - Self-actualization (Psychology) KW - Auto-actualización (Psicología) N1 - Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice; Prologue: stop trying to be so happy -- Glass half full, glass half empty, or glass that needs to be washed? the optimistic character -- The persistence instinct: optimists and their goals -- Building (and rebuilding) for the future: optimists and their resources -- So happy together: optimists and their relationships -- Mixed blessing: optimists and their health -- Everything good, especially the bad: optimists and their vulnerabilities -- Is an optimist born or made? the optimistic character revisited -- Doing optimism: optimists, pessimists, and their potential for change -- Epilogue: confessions of a reluctant optimist ER -