Feeling gloomy about the future? You’re not alone. New data shows economic pessimism is growing in Australia, and the ...

Key points Past research has demonstrated that optimism can benefit happiness, relationships, and health. But defensive pessimism—setting low expectations and considering worst-case scenarios—can help ...

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 ...

AAII investor sentiment shifts: bullish drops to 31.4% as bearish rises to 42.3%. Click here to read the most recent survey ...

For the most part, the world is made up of optimists and pessimists—and sprinkled with a healthy dose of realists in between. In general, optimists expect good things to happen, and pessimists expect ...

Against this backdrop, six in ten Australians (59%) say they are pessimistic about Australia’s economic performance over the ...

Do you ever feel like your plan can’t fail? You’re wrong. Optimism bias causes individuals to overestimate the likelihood of positive outcomes and underestimate the likelihood of negative ones, even ...

Views on the U.S. economy dropped again in May to another record low, according to a widely tracked survey by the University of Michigan, which warned that further ceasefire talks with Iran are ...

During his time in a Nazi prison, Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote to his friend Eberhard Bethge that he was neither a pessimist (expecting things to get worse) nor an optimist (expecting things to get ...

You’re running late for work because you overslept (thanks for nothing, alarm clock!) when suddenly, your shoe sticks to the sidewalk. Yup, you just stepped in gum. Five minutes later, you’re almost ...

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 ...