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 ...

Women with a more positive outlook on life may live longer than female counterparts who hold a more pessimistic view of the world, according to a new study published in the American Journal of ...

“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 ...

BOULDER, Colo. — When times are tough, a positive outlook becomes a superpower that can boost your savings. New research tracking over 143,000 people reveals that optimists consistently outperform ...

“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 ...

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 ...

When thinking about future events, optimists' brains work similarly, while pessimists' brains show a much larger degree of individuality. The Kobe University finding offers an explanation why ...

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 ...

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, ...

Is the glass half full? Source: Image on Pikist / No Attribution Listed Does an optimistic attitude have health benefits as we age? The question is important because if optimism does lead to healthier ...

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 ...