Mental Process
Optimism
Mental attitude that interprets life events as generally being positive.
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Optimism, the theory, in philosophy, that the world is the best of all possible worlds or, in ethics, that life is worth living. It is derived from the Latin optimum ("best"). The philosophical...
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Optimism doesn't mean engaging in wishful or fantastic thinking. It's a way of looking at the world that gives more agency to the optimist as being at least ...
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Optimism is a tendency to expect good things in the future. From the literature here reviewed, it is apparent that optimism is a mental attitude that heavily ...
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Optimism and pessimism are mindsets — ways of thinking and seeing things. Optimists see the positive side of things. They expect things to turn out well. They ...
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Feb 1, 2010 ... Optimism is an individual difference variable that reflects the extent to which people hold generalized favorable expectancies for their ...
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Smithsonian Earth Optimism is a global movement to change the conservation conversation from gloom and doom to optimism and opportunity.
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Dec 6, 2011 ... Thus, while optimistic biases are common in the majority of humans, optimism seems to break down in major depression disorder (MDD), with ...
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Sep 27, 2019 ... In 2001, Kubzansky and colleagues reported the first study, to our knowledge, to find an association between higher optimism and a lower risk ...
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May 1, 2008 ... Optimism helps people cope with disease and recover from surgery. Even more impressive is the impact of a positive outlook on overall health and ...
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However, epidemiological data regarding dispositional optimism in relation to mortality are scanty. Objective To test whether subjects who are optimistic live ...
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Earth Optimism. The Smithsonian Conservation Common's Earth Optimism initiative is changing the conservation narrative from one that focuses on problems and ...