Americans’ optimism about future hits record low, poll finds - Just 59 percent of Americans anticipate a positive outlook for ...

Research shows optimism is a major contributor to longevity. Fortunately, up to 75 percent of your level of optimism is under your control. Warren Buffett calls it the Methuselah Effect: the financial ...

They see the wallet half full. The power of positivity might seem like hocus pocus, but having an optimistic outlook could literally benefit one’s bank account, according to a sunny study published in ...

“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”—Winston Churchill Optimism can be defined as “the extent to which people hold generalized ...

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” This is the first line of Leo Tolstoy’s novel Anna Karenina, and it may hold a kernel of truth that goes beyond family ...

Being optimistic about the future may help people save more money, and the effect appears strongest among those with lower incomes, according to research published in the Journal of Personality and ...

Cultural factors, such as attitudes toward the past and an independent-interdependent orientation, shape how people plan ...

In the journal PNAS, a Kobe University team around YANAGISAWA Kuniaki reports that when optimists think about future events, their neural activity patterns are mutually similar. Pessimists’ patterns, ...

Two recent studies have found a new racial divide facing America right now—namely, the optimism gap. Carol Graham of the Brookings Institution studies happiness and inequality. In September, she ...

Warren Buffett calls it the Methuselah Effect: the financial advantages of a long life, a high rate of return, and as Buffett wrote in his 1965 Buffett Partnership letter, “a combination of both ...