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The Pollyanna principle (also called Pollyannaism or positivity bias) is the tendency for people to remember pleasant items more accurately than unpleasant ones. [1] Research indicates that at the subconscious level, the mind tends to focus on the optimistic; while at the conscious level, it tends to focus on the negative.
When an individual tries to suppress thoughts under a high cognitive load, the frequency of those thoughts increases and becomes more accessible than before. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Evidence shows that people can prevent their thoughts from being translated into behavior when self-monitoring is high; this does not apply to automatic behaviors though, and ...
The term pessimism derives from the Latin word pessimus, meaning 'the worst'.It was first used by Jesuit critics of Voltaire's 1759 novel Candide, ou l'Optimisme.Voltaire was satirizing the philosophy of Leibniz who maintained that this was the 'best (optimum) of all possible worlds'.
They underwent a cognitive-behavioral group intervention where they learnt to use thought stopping to interrupt negative thinking and replace it with a positive thought. At the end of the experiment, participants had shown a decrease in negative thinking, even 6 months after the intervention, thus improving their mental health .
Employers, not employees, call the shots. Not everyone is ready to fight back. A significant share of readers' comments took the stance that what the boss says goes.
For example, stereotype threat has been shown to disrupt working memory and executive function, [46] [47] increase arousal, [48] increase self-consciousness about one's performance, [49] and cause individuals to try to suppress negative thoughts as well as negative emotions such as anxiety. [50] People have a limited amount of cognitive ...
1. “Know yourself and trust what feels good on you. I don’t believe in trends. My trends are the things that work on my body that I’ve been doing forever: a high-waisted pant, a trouser, a ...
The "all-or-nothing thinking distortion" is also referred to as "splitting", [20] "black-and-white thinking", [2] and "polarized thinking." [21] Someone with the all-or-nothing thinking distortion looks at life in black and white categories. [15] Either they are a success or a failure; either they are good or bad; there is no in-between.