Too Much of a Good Thing? The Perils of Overconfidence
Wharton’s Katherine Milkman talks with Don Moore from the University of California, Berkeley, about his new book, Perfectly Confident.
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Topics: Decision-Making Intellectual Humility Optimism
Finding Hope When Everything Feels Hopeless
The Wall Street Journal
Topics: Agency Emotion Hope Optimism Resilience
What to Do When the Future Feels Hopeless
Humans like to feel optimistic about and in control of where their life is headed. The pandemic has made it very hard to feel that way.
The Atlantic
Topics: Coping Happiness Optimism
Even When Optimism Has Been Lost, Hope Has a Role to Play
Psyche
Topics: Hope Optimism Rationality Values
Checking in With Your Future Self
Is it better to think that you’ll change as time goes by or to think that you’ll stay mostly the same?
Character & Context, Society for Personality and Social Psychology
Topics: Happiness Optimism
On Coronavirus Lockdown? Look for Meaning, Not Happiness
Why cultivating “tragic optimism” will help us weather this crisis — and even grow from it.
The New York Times
Topics: Coping Happiness Hope Meaning Optimism Resilience
Social Distancing Prevents Infections, But It Can Have Unintended Consequences
Past research sheds light on the potential impacts of isolation.
Science
Topics: Altruism Loneliness Optimism Resilience
Optimism Increases as People Get Older
We found that people tended to get more optimistic with age, peaking around age 55, followed by a slight decline afterwards.
Topics: Aging Optimism
Cheer Up! Optimists Live Longer
Optimistic people live as much as 15 percent longer than pessimists, according to a new study spanning thousands of people and three decades.
Topics: Aging Longevity Optimism
New Study Discovers the Trajectory of Optimism in Life
A study found how optimism varies throughout life.
Big Think
Topics: Optimism
The Science of Looking on the Bright Side
To the Best of Our Knowledge
Topics: Bias Hope Optimism
The Financial Upside of Being an Optimist
A survey found they save more and stress about money less than pessimists.
Harvard Business Review
Topics: Happiness Optimism Success
Science Shows That Luck Is a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Philosophy professor Steven Hales and experimental psychologist Jennifer Johnson tested their hypothesis that optimists are more likely to see other people’s experiences as lucky, while pessimists focus on misfortune in the same set of facts.
Quartz
Topics: Humility Luck Optimism Success
Think Positive, Climb Out of Poverty? It Just Might Work
There is expanding evidence that anti-poverty programs can have amplified benefits if they can help people adopt a more optimistic outlook.
Topics: Hope Optimism
How and Why Positive Activities Can Make You Happier
A large and growing body of research has been probing the science of happiness, or well-being, as scientists work to uncover the determinants and outcomes of happiness — and, importantly, how to increase it.
Behavioral Scientist
Topics: Gratitude Happiness Optimism
To Be Successful, Make Your Own Luck
Stories about getting lucky are common in the business world, but attributing success to random chance is misleading. There are some simple rules to create luck for yourself.
Humans Are Bad at Predicting Futures That Don’t Benefit Them
Unrealistic optimism makes people think bad things are less likely to happen to them than to others, and it hampers their decision-making.
Topics: Bias Decision-Making Optimism
Being Optimistic Is Good. Knowing about Optimism Bias Is Better.
People constantly underestimate the likelihood of something bad happening to them and overestimate the chances of positive events.
Optimism Is the Engine That Moves Society Forward
Skepticism has a place, but it's optimists who decide the future, says Kevin Kelly.
Topics: Optimism Progress
Want to Be More Optimistic? Consider the Triumph of Human Reason
Yale psychologist Paul Bloom has views on empathy, emotion, and rationality that make him a black sheep among his peers.
Topics: Emotion Empathy Morality Optimism Paul Bloom Rationality
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