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
A sample of new research exploring: judgment, uncertainty, and optimism; processing of object-scene relations; and orienting biases in visual attention. More
NPR: Older women who look on the bright side of life were less likely to die in the next several years than their peers who weren’t as positive about the future. The research, published Wednesday in the American Journal of Epidemiology, is the latest to find an association between a More
The Washington Post: Democrats finished their party convention in Philadelphia celebrating their monopoly on optimism. Under the headline “Hillary Clinton’s Democratic Party Reclaims Morning in America,” the Daily Beast’s Michael Tomasky wrote: “Donald Trump, and the millions who voted for him, turned the Republican Party into a party of rage More
Pacific Standard: With the National Football League’s first game of the season now behind us and the usual slew of games coming Sunday, psychologists have a helpful reminder for all the fans out there: Your team probably won’t be as good as you think. That’s because, as a new study More
