You hear it all the time: Want to be happier? Think more positively. Want to be productive? Channel a positive frame of mind. Don’t get me wrong — I’m a huge advocate for living positively. It’s ...

Life is full of ups and downs, and the way we perceive these experiences shapes our reality. While we can’t always control what happens to us, we do have the power to control how we react. A positive ...

We all are well-aware of the power of positive thinking; how it brings us happiness, how it fills our life with confidence and optimism, how it helps stimulate people around us, and how it can even ...

How did it feel to be near them? Most of us still carry these experiences with us, decades later. We know firsthand that ...

A lot of us have trained ourselves to expect the worst—not because we want to be pessimists, but because figuring out how to be more positive often feels like an abstract concept, tied to forced, ...

Much of it dives into science around the psychological concept of mindset, or the beliefs and attitudes that shape how we ...

This blog is about the intersection of storytelling and psychological science. I became interested in psychology because, as a literary scholar, I wanted to understand why humans are so hopelessly ...