WhatYouCanChange...andWhatYouCan\'t_

MARTIN E. P. SELIGMAN, PH.D. What You Can Change . . . and What You Can’t Martin E. P. Seligman, Ph.D., professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania and a past president of the American Psychological Association, is a leading expert on motivation and emotion and an authority on learned helplessness. He is the director of the Positive Psychology Center at the University of Pennsylvania. His many books include Authentic Happiness and Learned Optimism. Dr. Seligman’s research has been supported by the National Institute on Mental Health, the National Institute of Aging, the National Science Foundation, the Department of Education, the MacArthur Foundation, the Templeton Foundation, and the Guggenheim Foundation. ALSO BY MARTIN E. P. SELIGMAN, PH.D. Learned Optimism Learned Helplessness: A Theory for the Age of Personal Control Authentic Happiness The Optimistic Child To NICOLE DANA SELIGMAN born August 26, 1991, at the end of a week in which human beings changed what for most of this century had seemed beyond change. Born into a new world. God, grant me serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to ch......