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Optimism Bias

Make Solutions, Not Problems

Marian Salzman | Posted 02.04.2013 | Business
Read More: Optimism, Positive Psychology, Pragmatic, Positivity, Optimism Bias, Negativity, Positive, Positive Deviance, Google, Business News
Marian Salzman

It's hard to find people who think negativity is a good thing. But if negativity is bad, why is there so much of it? Why is it so popular? There's growing evidence that our interest in negativity isn't just a nasty habit created by media and politicians; it's part of the way our brains work.

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Will the Future Be As Bright As You Think?

Tom Huston | Posted 07.17.2012 | Science
Read More: Pessimism, Science, Neuroscience, TED Talks, Statistics, Optimism, Optimism Bias, Tali Sharot, Video, Becoming-Fearless, Science News
Tom Huston

Are you a pessimist or an optimist? When you've eaten all the whipped cream and upper midsection of your Venti Soy Mocha Frappuccino, is that cup half empty or is it half full of stuff you probably shouldn't be drinking at the start of your day?

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Thinking, Fast and Slow... About Staying Alive -- What's Missing From Kahneman's Classic

David Ropeik | Posted 02.14.2012 | Books
Read More: Optimism Bias, Affect Heuristic, Heuristics and Biases, Risk Perception, Psychology, Availability Heuristic, Loss Aversion, Kahneman, Mind, Decision Making, Fischhoff, Risk, Finucane, Lichetenstein, Slovic, Books News
David Ropeik

If you want to know what goes on in your brain as you "think", and you can only read one of the flood of recent books on the subject, you can not do better than Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow.

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Is This Glass Half Full?

Richard C. Senelick, M.D. | Posted 11.06.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Optimism, Learned Optimism, Optimism-Bias, Healthy Living Health News, Health and Optimism, Effect of Optimism on Health, Optimistic, Healthy Living Mind, Emotional Intelligence, Healthy Living News
Richard C. Senelick, M.D.

Pessimism can be bad for your health, and it could lead to heart disease and strokes. You may not be able turn to yourself into a whistling, wide-eyed optimist, but it is worth the effort to shed yourself of cynical hostility.

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The Optimism Bias

TIME | TALI SHAROT | Posted 07.31.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Optimism Cognitive Bias, Optimism Bias, Memory and Cognition, Optimists, Healthy Living Health News, Optimism, Happiness, Healthy Living News

By Tali Sharot While the past few years have seen important advances in the neuroscience of optimism, one enduring puzzle remained. How is it that ...

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