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Free Will Pessimism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The immediate aim of this paper is to articulate the essential features of an alternative compatibilist position, one that is responsive to sources of resistance to the compatibilist program based on considerations of fate and luck.
Russell, Paul
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Effects of optimism on motivation in rats

open access: yesFrontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2015
In humans, optimism is a cognitive construct related to motivation; optimists exert effort, whereas pessimists disengage from effort. In this study, using a recently developed ambiguous-cue interpretation (ACI) paradigm we took the unique opportunity to ...
Rafal eRygula   +5 more
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Optimistic Environmental Messaging Increases State Optimism and in vivo Pro-environmental Behavior

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2022
Despite recent empirical interest, the links between optimism and pessimism with pro-environmental behavior (PEB) remain equivocal. This research is characterized by a reliance on cross-sectional data, a focus on trait-level at the neglect of state-level
Megan MacKinnon   +2 more
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More Realistic Forecasting of Future Life Events After Psilocybin for Treatment-Resistant Depression

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2018
Background: Evidence suggests that classical psychedelics can promote enduring changes in personality, attitudes and optimism, as well as improvements in mental health outcomes.Aim: To investigate the effects of a composite intervention, involving ...
Taylor Lyons   +1 more
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Песимизам и профетизам Константина Леонтјева

open access: yesGodišnjak, 2016
Leontyev insists that the end of the world is inevitable. The history must end, while the solution of historical meaning is meta-historical. According to Leontyev, Christ has never promised equality or justice on Earth; on the contrary, He often ...
Miodrag Čizmović
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Hope, optimism, and pessimism as predictors of positive and negative psychological changes related to the COVID-19 pandemic in Slovak adults

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2023
Background and objectivesPositive and negative changes in outlook represent psychological changes that are the results of the cognitive processing of stressful and traumatic events by an individual.
Erika Jurišová   +4 more
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Impact of optimism versus pessimism on life satisfaction in university students

open access: yesEducar, 2023
Being optimistic or pessimistic is a form of intuitive, premonitory thinking that is conditioned by one’s personal experience. Some authors consider this attitude to be a subjective construction relating to expectations generated, motivation and effort.
Óscar Gavín-Chocano   +2 more
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Mustafa Lutfî el-Menfâlûtî’de ‘Koyu Karamsarlık’

open access: yesİlahiyat Tetkikleri Dergisi, 2019
Vahyin akılla, bilimin dinle, benliğin yaratıcıyla, dünyanın ahiretle çeliştiğini düşünen Batı modernitesi en güçlü etkisini kendi yuvası Avrupa’da gösterdikten kısa bir süre sonra 18.
Adnan Arslan
doaj   +1 more source

Optimism as a Candidate Health Asset: Exploring Its Links With Adolescent Quality of Life in Sweden [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This study aims to understand the role that optimism could play in the context of a health asset approach to promote adolescent health-related quality of life (HRQOL).
Benson P. L.   +15 more
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Iqbal, Nietzsche, and Nihilism: Reconstruction of Sufi Cosmology and Revaluation of Sufi Values in Asrar-i-Khudî

open access: yesOpen Philosophy, 2023
While the problem of nihilism is derived from a particular historical and intellectual context in Western philosophy, i.e., the pantheism controversy in modern German philosophy and the ideas of Nietzsche, non-Western thinkers also engaged with it and ...
Yılmaz Feyzullah
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