Tag: Optimism

  • Nation & World

    The movies may have been right

    When things are looking bad or worse, try some perspective, advises Professor Laura Kubzansky from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Optimism makes things better.

    4 minutes
    Illustration of person looking through telescope with COVID-shaped sun in background.
  • Nation & World

    Clever crows

    A new paper, co-authored by Dakota McCoy, a graduate student working in the lab of George Putnam Professor of Biology David Haig, suggests that, after using tools, crows were more optimistic.

    6 minutes
    Crow with tool
  • Nation & World

    The negative side of positive thinking

    “It often seems that partisans believe they are so correct that others will eventually come to see the obviousness of their correctness,” said Todd Rogers of the Harvard Kennedy School about his new research.

    2 minutes
    girl in field laughing
  • Nation & World

    Protecting the heart with optimism

    Work by HSPH researchers suggests a connection between psychological well-being and a reduced risk of heart attacks, strokes, and other cardiovascular events.

    2 minutes