If you want a pay raise, try being a little more optimistic. A new study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology found that workers who are cynical often have a lower income than ...

These 3 simple habits can really boost your optimism, research shows. Would you like to be more optimistic? Your answer should probably be yes. You may think of optimism, especially in these ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

When it comes to how you view the world and your everyday experiences, you probably fall into one of two categories: optimist or pessimist. For people with pessimistic tendencies, or a 'glass ...

Lev Tolstoy was right. “All happy families are alike,” the famous novelist wrote in Anna Karenina. “Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Turns out, something similar happens to the brains ...

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 ...

The most optimistic people about the next four years are young Americans, according to a new poll. The survey, taken by CBS and YouGov, found that 60 percent of all Americans are optimistic about a ...

It seems like all of the self-help industry is complicit in encouraging everyone to have a positive outlook and to grow their optimism. Having a “sunny disposition,” or positive affect, may go a long ...

TV is full of memorable characters with lots of unique characteristics. Our favorite characters stand out amongst others. This list of TV’s most unshakable optimists presents the most upbeat, positive ...