Optimism, it turns out, isn't just defined as the tendency to expect things to turn out better than probability predicts, nor is pessimism defined only as the tendency to expect things to turn out ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Glass half-empty or half-full? Does it really matter? As it turns out, it does matter how you explain that glass and the world around you ...

We learn to explain the things that happen to us in this world primarily by listening to and observing how others explain the world. Our "explanatory style," as Marty Seligman, Ph.D. has labeled it, ...

Further study of explanatory style, which is a measured assessment, is warranted to make those determinations, Dr. Maruta said. Also, Dr. Maruta says the results might begin to help health care ...

Psychological Inquiry is an international forum for the discussion of theory and meta-theory. The journal strives to publish articles that represent broad, provocative, and debatable theoretical ideas ...