If you’re the glass-half-full type, you should be overjoyed at the news coming out of Yale School of Public Health. But pessimists like me? We’re stuffed There’s bad news for me and my fellow Eeyores ...

Adolescents with high positive affect may have improved physical and mental health as adults, according to a new study. Adolescents with high positive affect may have improved physical and mental ...

Self-affirmation theory was proposed by psychologist Claude Steele in the late 1980s and remains popular today. The theory suggests we have a deep desire to craft a personal narrative that we are ...

This mindset shift is going viral for a reason. “The more we focus on positive experiences, the more our nervous system learns to orient toward safety, possibility, and hope,” she tells Bustle. “At ...

Zero-sum thinking is outdated. The future of growth is inclusive, abundant and collective. Unsplash+ Our economic narrative has been hijacked by a dangerous falsehood: the notion that the economy is ...

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A lot of us have trained ourselves to expect the worst—not because we want to be pessimists, but because figuring out how to be more positive often feels like an abstract concept, tied to forced, ...

The benefits of positive expressive writing for psychological health and wellbeing depend on the particular approach and on individual differences, according to a systematic review published on May 21 ...

In the past 25 years — from 2000 to 2024 — we have witnessed a revolution in the management, treatment, and outcome of what used to be the most lethal hematologic cancer: Philadelphia ...

We are living in stressful, negative times, which if left unchecked can become cynical, hopeless times. You can help safeguard against this by being a vocal advocate for positive, productive thinking.

In 1995, a research team in Southern California launched an inquiry into how the challenges people experience during their younger years impact them as adults. They asked approximately 17,000 adults ...