Research shows optimism is a major contributor to longevity. Fortunately, up to 75 percent of your level of optimism is under your control. Warren Buffett calls it the Methuselah Effect: the financial ...

Grateful people tend to be optimistic, but they’re not the same. Optimism is a belief about getting something you don’t have ...

“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”—Winston Churchill Optimism can be defined as “the extent to which people hold generalized ...

BOULDER, Colo. — When times are tough, a positive outlook becomes a superpower that can boost your savings. New research tracking over 143,000 people reveals that optimists consistently outperform ...

Being optimistic about the future may help people save more money, and the effect appears strongest among those with lower incomes, according to research published in the Journal of Personality and ...

They see the wallet half full. The power of positivity might seem like hocus pocus, but having an optimistic outlook could literally benefit one’s bank account, according to a sunny study published in ...

Learn what optimism bias is, why gamblers overestimate their chances of winning, and how this psychological bias affects betting decisions and outcomes.

Warren Buffett calls it the Methuselah Effect: the financial advantages of a long life, a high rate of return, and as Buffett wrote in his 1965 Buffett Partnership letter, “a combination of both ...