Exploring Optimism In this paper hopefulness and optimism will be compared and contrasted and a review under what circumstances might optimism is harmful. Then the paper will explore defensive pessimism and under what circumstances might this be beneficial. So how is hopefulness and optimism related? Both terms are positive. Both terms are wonderful motivators. Hope is a dream and optimism makes the dream come true. Hopefulness is the emotion or feeling that keeps a person going and striving for
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PROJECT Unrealistic Optimism is a cognitive bias that causes a person to believe that they are less likely to experience a negative and more likely to experience a positive event compared to others. There are four factors that cause people to have unrealistic optimism: Their desired end state‚ their cognitive mechanisms‚ the information they have about themselves versus others and overall mood. Studies show that most humans are disposed to unrealistic optimism. Illusory optimism increases our vulnerability
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Blind Optimism‚ Thick Skin‚ And A Cell Phone By Melanie Warner August 13‚ 2001 (FORTUNE Magazine) – Sudha Shah is at the peak of her game. As one of the top sales reps for a big software company‚ she’s won the respect (and perhaps envy) of her co-workers‚ and she has earned a bucket of money in commissions. Last year Sudha blasted through her sales quota by more than 400%‚ bringing around $40 million in revenue to SAP‚ the German business-software maker--more money than all but one of her 300 sales
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Optimism and Health Karen Ibister 2/17/2013 3:20 PM Colleen Story PSY/220 Sun-Sat Optimism and Health In my opinion this article breaks down optimism on physical and psychological health very well. The article explains as it is commonly understood‚ the term ‘optimism’ embraces two closely correlated concepts: the first is the inclination to hope‚ while the second more generally refers to the tendency to believe that we live in “the best of all possible worlds”‚ as coined by the German
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“Martin Seligman (1975‚ 1976) believed that learned helplessness is the laboratory analogue of reactive depression in humans. Learned helplessness can be defined as a psychological state involving a disturbance of motivation‚ cognitive processes‚ and emotionality as a result of previously experienced uncontrollability on the part of the organism”. (Petri and Govern‚ 2012‚ p.169) In today’s society‚ everyone in their lives go through a state of learned helplessness where they are completely not in
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Optimism as an Ideal Voltaire presents the character of the protagonist called "Candide: or‚ all for the Best" and "Candide: or‚ The Optimist." learns the principles of optimism from his teacher‚ Dr. Pngloss‚ who lives constantly in fools optimism‚ based on abstract philosophical argument rather than intangible evidence or experiment. However‚ In the chaotic world of the novel. Pangloss and his student Candide maintain that “everything is for the
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I believe that learned helplessness is true (esp. in its connection with depression) but doesn’t explain for all cases. I also believe that learned helplessness is a conditioned response. If you say you are going to fail so many times‚ then you will. Many people relate the two together when they are not always relatable. For instance‚ one might suffer from learned helplessness but could not be depressed‚ or one might be depressed but not have suffered from learned helplessness. But‚ I do believe
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Seligman’s Theory of Learned Helplessness Clarisa Kashima Laksmi B1101539 Department of Psychology PSY 111 Dr Goh Chee Leong Edward Ong Learned helplessness is the tendency to fail to act to escape from a situation because of a history of repeated failures in the past (Ciccarelli & White‚ 2009). To describe learned helplessness in person is that recognizing that repeated failures will arouse the idea of a difficult task and impossible to solve. They sometimes blame the outside factors
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Running Head: Learned Helplessness in the Workplace Paper Learned Helplessness in the Workplace Psychology 320 November 22‚ 2010 Professor: Sprinkle Abstract In the late 1960’s and early 1970s Mr. Martin Seligman began to study what effects surroundings have on not only animals‚ but human beings. His studies were an attempt to determine what ramifications outside influences could have on a live beings motivation and drive for success. He started his studies by giving rats electric
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Optimism as a Theme for Candide Just as on the title‚ Candide‚ or Optimism‚ Optimism is also used as a major theme. Voltaire’s satire of philosophical optimism is one of the major issues of Candide. Throughout the story‚ satirical references to "the best of all possible worlds" contrast with natural catastrophes and human wrongdoing. According to Wikipedia‚ "optimism‚ the opposite of pessimism‚ is a lifeview where the world is looked upon the as a positive place. Optimists generally believe that
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