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While we can’t control everything that impacts our health, making room for a more positive outlook in life can help support both wellbeing and longevity.
Some patients with a terminal illness seem to be able to ‘hold on’ until after an anticipated holiday or event. This might be less about staying positive and more about being supported in your goals.
You might fall into a funk for many reasons – whether that’s returning home from a fun holiday or because you aren’t sure where you’re going in life.
Leaders who promote a bit of fun in the workplace can help their employees engage and be more innovative and actually want to come to work.
‘Lucky girl syndrome’ focuses on using positive affirmations to achieve material benefit.
Psychology researchers know what kinds of behavior enhance feelings of social connection.
There is more than one way to pursue happiness and to cope with the inevitable low times in life.
TV programmes with certain themes can help boost our mood.
Stay-at-home measures allowed many people to slow down, reflect and invest more time in themselves.
‘Prozac leaders’ believe their own rhetoric that “everything is going well”. But this wishful thinking can quickly contaminate organisations, and has been disastrous during the pandemic.
We asked five experts if your mental state can affect how well you recover from illness and disease. Five out of five said yes.
Human beings seem to be born wearing rose-colored glasses. Psychologists are interested in how this bias toward the positive works in the very young – and how it fades over time.
Top contributors
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Associate Professor, Centre for Positive Health Sciences, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences
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Reader in Psychology, University of Strathclyde
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Associate Professor Mental Health Drug and Alcohol Nursing, University of Technology Sydney
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Lecturer in Social Sciences, Monash University
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Lecturer in Positive Psychology, University of East London
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Community Faculty in Psychology, Metropolitan State University
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Conjoint Clinical Associate Professor, Deakin University School of Medicine and Specialist Pain Medicine Physician, Deakin University
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Professor of Psychology, University of North Carolina – Greensboro
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Professor of Coaching and Positive Psychology, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences
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Professor of Psychiatry, Monash University
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Professor, Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Distinguished Professor of Leadership and Organisation, Lancaster University
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Associate Professor Drug Discovery, Monash University
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Senior Lecturer in Psychological Interventions, University of Lancashire
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Senior Lecturer In Academic General Practice, Deakin University