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Being overly optimistic in life puts us at risk. In addition, people who show cheerful, optimistic personality traits during childhood, have a shorter life expectancy than their more serious counter parts. On the other hand, optimists are more psychologically resilient, have stronger immune systems, and live longer on average than more reality-based opposites. So who’s better off in life; the optimist or the pessimist? And who’s reality comes closest to the truth? 
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Filmmaker and futurist Jason Silva explains his belief in the self-reinforcing power of optimism.
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People who believe the world is a just place trust salespeople more than consumers who don't—but only after they've made a purchase, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research.
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When a team of scientists set out to evaluate the emotional significance of English words, they expected most would fall at the center of the scale, at neutral, while equal shares trailed out to the positive and negative ends of the spectrum.
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Increasingly, research suggests how much our worldview is shaped by the predictions made deep inside our brain, below conscious awareness. A hard-wired bias toward optimism makes some sense from an evolutionary standpoint, as being an optimistic species could theoretically make humans more willing to take chances. Regardless, the research from Korn and his team remind us yet again that our decisions may not be quite what we think they are.
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(Medical Xpress) -- A new study published in the Journal of Religion and Health has connected the regular attendance of religious services with an increased level of optimism and a decreased risk of depression.
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Research reveals positive emotions and psychological well-being play a role in our physical and mental health. Positive emotions help us to be more resilient and mediate our ability to cope with stress and manage mental health concerns. Via Sandeep Gautam
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For some people, the glass is always half full. Even when a football fan's team has lost ten matches in a row, he might still be convinced his team can reverse its run of bad luck.
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Are you really, truly capable of laughing at yourself? If so, it's a good sign that you have an optimistic personality and a good sense of humor, a new study suggests.
More on LAUGHTER: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=laughter
Via Lesley Rodgers
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A group of psychologists led by Harvard's Karl Spzunar have investigated our optimistic forecasting by testing people's memories of events that haven't actually happened. PSYCHOLOGY: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=psychology
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We humans are a hopeful bunch — so hopeful, in fact, that our views of the future are often irrationally positive. But at what point does unflagging optimism become detrimental to our progress and success? Articles about NEUROSCIENCE: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=neuroscience
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When people do not get enough sleep, they tend to make overly optimistic decisions and may be more prone to risky gambling.
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Cultivate your realistic optimism by combining a positive attitude with an honest assessment of the challenges that await you. Don't visualize success -- visualize the steps you will take in order to make success happen. Via Sandeep Gautam
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A recent Pew Research Center report shows that Americans really do believe in individualism and freewill. Only 36 percent of Americans polled said that they thought their economic fortunes were determined by forces beyond their control.
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If you want people to change the current system, or status quo, first you have to get them to notice what’s wrong with it. That’s the idea behind a new study to be published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, which finds that people pay attention to negative information about the system when they believe the status quo can change.
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Patients with major depression do better by learning to create a more positive outlook about the future, rather than by focusing on negative thoughts about their past experiences, researchers at Cedars-Sinai say after developing a new treatment...
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