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A Model for Organizational Cynicism in the Universities [PDF]
مطالعات مدیریت راهبردی, 2021 Aim and introduction: Organizational pessimism has a diminishing effect on thinking, attitude, behavior, and performance of the individual in the organization, and the continuation of this category in the individual causes it to spread to other ...
Javad shekarriz +2 more
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Religions, 2022 Games of chance usually make people feel a whirlwind of emotions, especially in gambling. While those games depend more on luck than on individuals’ skills, optimism should be a distinctive feature.
Lisete S. Mónico, Valentim R. Alferes
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Kant’s and Fichte’s ethics as sources of Schopenhauer’s philosophy [PDF]
Кантовский сборник, 2016 This article aims to demonstrate the centrality of Kant’s and Fichte’s ethics to the development of Schopenhauer’s ideas of 1811—1813. The author proves the following theses based on the philosopher’s manuscripts and the first edition of his dissertation.
Sattar A. S.
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Economic and Business Review, 2018 This field study examines the joint effect of leaders’ and followers’ different cognitive characteristics (i.e., defensive pessimism) on followers’ isolation.
Aldijana Bunjak, Matej Černe
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Pessimism and Overcommitment [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020 Economic agents commonly use commitment devices to limit impulsive behavior in the interest of long-term goals. We provide evidence for excess demand for commitment in a laboratory experiment. Subjects are faced with a tedious productivity task and a tempting option to surf the internet.
Ek, Claes, Samahita, Margaret
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Testing a model of antecedents and consequences of defensive pessimism and self-handicapping in school physical education [PDF]
, 2010 There has been very limited research on the use of self-worth protection strategies in the achievement context of school physical education (PE).
Bentler P. M. +14 more
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Teachers' optimism and self-regulation as predictors of readiness for professional development [PDF]
Nastava i VaspitanjeThis research examines the relationship between teachers' optimism/pessimism, primary and secondary control, and readiness for professional development in primary and secondary schools in Serbia.
Beara-Benjak Mirjana +1 more
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School Refusal Behavior Profiles, Optimism/Pessimism, and Personality Traits in Spanish Children
Education Sciences, 2021 The relationship between school refusal behavior (SRB) profiles and personality traits has received little attention from investigators. Identifying the profiles of students with school attendance problems may improve the understanding of the ...
Miriam Martín +5 more
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Nietzsche's reading of the Pandora myth: Pessimism, hope, and the tragic art of the Greeks [PDF]
Journal of Philosophical Investigations, 2020 I.This essay is focused on Nietzsche’s unique reading of the Pandora myth as it appears in Human, All Too Human and develops an interpretation of Hope, the most profound evil of the many evils released by Pandora infecting the human condition, as it ...
James Magrini
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African Journal of Psychological Assessment, 2022 The relevance of dispositional optimism – as measured by the Life Orientation Test-Revised (LOT-R) – in health psychology has been convincingly demonstrated in numerous cross-national studies; however, empirical evidence of its psychometric quality and ...
Charles H. van Wijk
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