A sample of research on optimism prescriptions, mental logout and social media, stress and cognitive effort, perceptual decision-making, the ego-depletion effect, the effect of replications on citations, scientific consensus and false beliefs, and anterograde amnesia. More
A sample of research on factors that predict faster spread of COVID-19, how optimism might decrease unethical behaviors during the pandemic, development of language perception, color-emotion associations, moral choice, decision making, and well-being and person-culture match. More
One of the most startling things about people is the way they always think things are going to get better. It doesn’t matter how ugly things get, humans are incurable optimists. And the older people get, the more positive they feel about the future. That’s why the elderly are actually More
Research shows that optimism is correlated with various good outcomes: higher life expectancy, better recovery rates, success at work. But is optimism a personality trait, or could it be learned? ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: There’s a lot of research showing that optimism is correlated with all kinds of good outcomes like More
Here’s a good reason to turn that frown upside down: Optimistic people live as much as 15% longer than pessimists, according to a new study spanning thousands of people and 3 decades. Scientists combined data from two large, long-term studies: one including 69,744 women and another of 1429 men, all More
APS Fellow Charles S. Carver, whose research focused on the personality dimensions of optimism versus pessimism, has died. More
