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A pilot exploration of the relationships between optimism, affect, and cardiovascular reactivity
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 IntroductionCardiovascular reactivity refers to changes in blood pressure and heart rate in response to internal or external stimuli. Previous research has shown that excessively high and low cardiovascular reactivity are associated with an increased ...
Cesar Parra-Gaete, Carlos Hermosa-Bosano
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Effects of optimism on motivation in rats
Frontiers 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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More Realistic Forecasting of Future Life Events After Psilocybin for Treatment-Resistant Depression
Frontiers 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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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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, 2012 On the standard view, pessimism is a philosophically intractable topic. Against the standard view, I hold that pessimism is a stance, or compound of attitudes, commitments and intentions.
Prescott, Paul
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Transcendental Pessimism [PDF]
I provide an overview of the differences between psychological pessimism and philosophical pessimism. Based on a historic reading of the original 19th century German pessimist philosophers I provide a definition of what I call "transcendental pessimism ...
Moya, Ignacio L.
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Песимизам и профетизам Константина Леонтјева
Godišnjak, 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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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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Optimism and pessimism in optimised replay [PDF]
PLOS Computational Biology, 2021 ABSTRACT The replay of task-relevant trajectories is known to contribute to memory consolidation and improved task performance. A wide variety of experimental data show that the content of replayed sequences is highly specific and can be modulated by reward as well as other prominent task variables.
Georgy Antonov +3 more
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