Positive Thinking: Optimism and Gratitude

A study of 275 participants testing whether optimism can be raised through a self-help intervention, and how much of the gain in well-being it explains. Includes the full method and results.

Jan Klösters

A concise entry by one of the researchers who defined dispositional optimism, covering expectancy-value models, how optimism shapes coping, and what it predicts for health and persistence.

Charles S. Carver

A course unit that separates dispositional optimism, learned optimism, and unrealistic optimism, then does the same for hope. Ends with how both are measured and developed.

Egyankosh

A study module on optimism and pessimism as predictions about the future, covering explanatory styles, realistic versus unrealistic optimism, and how pessimism can be shifted.

Pathshala

Ten concrete habits for keeping a positive outlook, each tied back to research such as the broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions. Short and immediately usable.

15Be