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Life begins in utter helplessness. The newborn infant cannot help himself, for hefn1 is almost entirely a creature of reflex. When he cries, his mother comes, although this does not mean that he controls his mother's coming. His crying is a mere reflex reaction to pain and discomfort. He has no choice about whether he cries.
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During Pavlovian conditioning they felt the shocks go on and off regardless of whether they struggled or jumped or barked or did nothing at all. They had concluded, or "learned," that nothing they did mattered. So why try?"
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They argued that these perpetrators have high self-esteem, and that their unwarranted self-esteem causes violence. Baumeister's work suggests that if you teach unwarrantedly high self-esteem to children, problems will ensue. A sub-group of these children will also have a mean streak in them. When these children confront the real world, and it tells them they are not as great as they have been taught, they will lash out with violence. So it ..
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But clinical psychologists also began to find something disconcerting emerging from therapy: even on that rare occasion when therapy goes superbly and unusually well, and you help the client rid herself of depression, anxiety, and anger, happiness is not guaranteed. Emptiness is not an uncommon result.
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Tales de Mileto pensaba que todo era agua.8 Aristoteles creia que todos los actos del ser humano tenian como fin la consecucion de la felicidad.9 Nietzsche pensaba que toda accion humana tenia como proposito alcanzar el poder.10 Freud pensaba que el fin de todos los actos del ser humano era evitar la angustia.11 Todos estos gigantes del pensamiento cayeron en el enorme error del monismo,
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Introduccion a la psicologia positiva" para la clase inaugural del programa de maestria en psicologia positiva aplicada en 2005. Senia, de treinta y dos anos, graduada con honores en matematicas por la Universidad de Harvard, habla con soltura ruso y japones y dirige su propio fondo de cobertura, es el ejemplo emblematico de la psicologia positiva. Su sonrisa transmite calidez incluso a las aulas cavernosas de Huntsman Hall, apodado la "Est..
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Expectation always introduces an element of bias, because it anticipates outcomes without waiting to see what actually happens. However, if expectations are consistently modified in the face of experience in a (*)-like or Bayesian manner, then over time, the influence of initial expectations will tend to diminish as new experiences "tune" expectations to actual frequencies through the reduction of prediction error. As experience grows in ma..
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At my parents' house, I recently found a 1950 black-and-white snapshot of a chubby bespectacled warrior holding a three-and-a-half-foot freshly killed rattlesnake. The boy's smile is ecstatic.
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The theory clearly predicts that in the classroom and, as we shall see in the next chapter, the playing field, success will not necessarily go to the most talented. The prize will go to the adequately talented who are also optimists.
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With patients, he pushed and pushed until he had persuaded them to give up the irrational beliefs that sustained their depression. "What do you mean you can't live without love?" he would cry. "Utter nonsense. Love comes rarely in life, and if you waste your life mooning over its all too ordinary absence, you are bringing on your own depression. You are living under a tyranny of should's. Stop 'should-ing' on yourself!"
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