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We found that optimism continued to increase throughout young adulthood. , seemed to steadily plateau and then decline into older adulthood,” said the lead author.…

The team behind the study developed a model for animal foraging that considered ‘valence-dependent optimism bias’ — a lopsided learning process in which information about bad outcomes is discounted or ignored.…

New UK research shows that excessive optimism is actually associated with lower cognitive skills such as verbal fluency, fluid reasoning, numerical reasoning, and memory.…

People who showed more goal persistence and optimism during the first assessment in the mid-1990s had greater reductions in depression, anxiety and panic disorders across the 18 years, according to the authors.…

Two factors are of essential importance here: risk optimism and risk tolerance. Individuals with more risk optimism are firmly convinced that investing in stocks leads to high profits.…

In my experience of living with hunter-gatherers one of the things that I noticed was that the most effective hunting or gathering parties had both optimists and pessimists within them.…

This impact appeared to occur via a boost in employees’ personal psychological resources of optimism, resiliency, self-efficacy, and flexibility—these results are in line with evidence from previous studies.…

Creating Optimism. As further evidence of the effect of plants on work life, a study just published details the. stress-reducing benefits. to office workers that even a small plant situated within easy viewing can impart.…

It has been known for some time that moods were contagious—indeed it was something that Alicia and I wrote about in our book “Creating Optimism” (McGraw-Hill) a few years ago.…

Alicia and I wrote quite a lot on this subject in our book “Creating Optimism.” Another study—in a recent TR—showed that having a view of nature while working increased productivity and engagement.…