If you want a pay raise, try being a little more optimistic. A new study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology found that workers who are cynical often have a lower income than ...

Warren Buffett calls it the Methuselah Effect: the financial advantages of a long life, a high rate of return, and as Buffett wrote in his 1965 Buffett Partnership letter, “a combination of both ...

Optimism and confidence are two of the biggest contributors to success. A new book explains why they matter and how to make ...

Only 25 percent of your optimism set-point is hereditary. The rest is under your control, and science says that’s a good ...

When it comes to how you view the world and your everyday experiences, you probably fall into one of two categories: optimist or pessimist. For people with pessimistic tendencies, or a 'glass ...

Being optimistic about the future may help people save more money, and the effect appears strongest among those with lower incomes, according to research published in the Journal of Personality and ...

They see the wallet half full. The power of positivity might seem like hocus pocus, but having an optimistic outlook could literally benefit one’s bank account, according to a sunny study published in ...

Prince Bhojwani never thought of himself as a negative person, until three trips to the hospital in one month forced him to reconsider. Before May 2018, he was a healthy but chronically worried ...

“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”—Winston Churchill Optimism can be defined as “the extent to which people hold generalized ...

Do you see the glass as half empty or half full? If you rewind to the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, chances are you experienced some level of pessimism. And who could blame you? With social ...

The most optimistic people about the next four years are young Americans, according to a new poll. The survey, taken by CBS and YouGov, found that 60 percent of all Americans are optimistic about a ...

Successful people don’t wait for results to be confident and optimistic. But if you’re not feeling it, a seemingly endless number of books in the self-help genre will promise to show you how build ...