Positive Psychology: Optimism

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 plain-language guide to how optimists and pessimists read the same events differently, and what the research says you can do about it. Pairs optimism with gratitude practice.

Pursuit-of-Happiness

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