An Enlightened-Realist Perspective on Positive Thinking
American culture emphasizes upbeat thinking, cheerfulness, optimism, and other manifestations of positive affect in its aphorisms, songs, religion, books, magazines, medicine, as well as business and psychology. This has led to the commonly unchallenged idea that positive thinking is always a good thing, which in turn has caused the power that negative thinking and affect hold, in terms of realistic appraisals of the self and the world, to be not only grossly underestimated but also frequently shunned. It is dangerous, however, to lose sight of unpleasant realities. In this paper we argue that an optimal range of affect is most adaptive and that extremes in either positive or negative affect are less beneficial. We present a model that links optimism to realism and discuss their combined influence, which results in the identification of five basic decision making approaches.
Enlightened realist positive thinking
C.W.Von Bergen John K.S.Chong
Southeastern Oklahoma State University, Durant, OK 74701-0609, USA School of Business, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey PO Box 195, Pomona, NJ 08240-0195, US
国际会议
香港·广州
英文
85-89
2010-07-25（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）