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Stress and Challenge: Kinds of Arousal

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Perhaps, like most people, you have not actually read Pollyanna’s undergraduate thesis. Never mind, it can be summarized: Dark clouds have silver linings, and our lives will be filled with flowers (probably) and successes (almost certainly) if we find some good in every situation. Pollyanna was somewhat nuts, but not entirely.

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Dienstbier, R.A. (2015). Stress and Challenge: Kinds of Arousal. In: Building Resistance to Stress and Aging. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137454850_6

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