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Book reviews: Popescu Constantin – Life like tragic optimism – an ecolonomic perspective
Annals of Spiru Haret University Economic Series, 2011 As the title indicates, this is a book about life and its optimism, considered somehow tragic by an economist, who has been concerned for years with the balanced economic growth, based on production functions, rigorous from a mathematic point of view ...
Ilie Şimon
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Predictors of wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic: Key roles for gratitude and tragic optimism in a UK-based cohort. [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Here we examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown on wellbeing among UK-based respondents (N = 133). We explore the extent to which variables across wellbeing domains (physical activity, gratitude, tragic optimism, social support, and nature connection) contribute to wellbeing according to our previously proposed GENIAL model.
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Tragic optimism in Half of a Yellow Sun and Beyond the Horizon [PDF]
, 2018 Chimamanda Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun and Amma Darko’s Beyond the Horizon are similar in many ways. They both focus on characters whose everyday peaceful lives are overturned by tragic events: in Half of a Yellow Sun, these include brutal war and its antecedent starvation, sickness, loss of properties, beloved family members and friends, squalor ...
Ezika-Anaduaka, Chisom +2 more
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When terror hits home: A case for tragic optimism
From: Wong, P. T. P. (2001, September). When terror hits home: A case for tragic optimism. Positive Living Newsletter. https://www.meaning.ca/article/when-terror-hits-home-a-case-for-tragic-optimism/
paul T P Wong
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Within-network brain connectivity during a social optimism task is related to personal optimism and optimism for in-group members. [PDF]
, 2023 Optimism bias is the tendency to believe desirable events are more likely to happen than undesirable ones. People often display optimistic biases for themselves (personal optimism), but also for members of groups they like or identify with (social ...
Aue, T. +14 more
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Differentiating the effects of negative state on optimism and the implicit perception of everyday injury risk [PDF]
, 2012 To date no research has examined the effects of negative state on the perception of everyday injury risk. Instead, studies have focussed more broadly on the relationship between mood and self- reported optimism. The present study had two aims.
Morgan, J, Garthwaite, J
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Hope, optimism and delusion [PDF]
, 2014 Optimism is generally accepted by psychiatrists, psychologists and other caring professionals as a feature of mental health. Interventions typically rely on cognitive-behavioural tools to encourage individuals to ‘stop negative thought cycles’ and to ...
McGuire-Snieckus, R
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Health and Society, 2021 The article analyzes the tragic triad, brought by Frankl on Logotherapy, on the true story of cancer patient’s last days, in the book “Chasing the daylight”, by Eugene O’Kelly, main author and protagonist. It was performed a non-systematic review of literature produced in the approach about the subject.
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Optimism and recovery after acute coronary syndrome: a clinical cohort study. [PDF]
, 2015 Optimism is associated with reduced cardiovascular mortality, but its impact on recovery after acute coronary syndrome (ACS) is poorly understood. We hypothesized that greater optimism would lead to more effective physical and emotional adaptation after ...
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Revue Internationale d’Éducation de Sèvres, 1999 In his analysis of Algeria’s education system from independence to the present day, Ahmed Djebbar highlights the fact that despite the progressive orientations and the emphasis on generosity of the nation’s founding fathers, the incipient development of ...
Ahmed Djebbar
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