The glass is half-full: overestimating the quality of a novel environment is advantageous. by Oded Berger-Tal, Tal Avgar

“…We show, using a simple simulation model, that when facing uncertainty in heterogeneous environments it is better to overestimate the quality of the environment (to be an "optimist") than underestimate it, as optimistic animals learn the true value of the environment faster due to higher exploration rate. …”
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Trends in global foreign direct investment flows: facts and challenges for Romania by Marcel Moldoveanu, Florin Bonciu, Mirela Simion

“…As for Romania the conclusions of the paper are moderately optimist as regards the FDI inflows for the period 2012 – 2014. …”
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Humanity Cast as the Other in the Tragedy of Life: An Ecocritical Reading of Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing, The Handmaid’s Tale and MaddAddam Trilogy by Parisa Changizi, Parvin Ghasemi

“…Atwood’s stance is ultimately one of paradox: she is as much as a pessimist that she is an optimist as hope inevitably is the everlasting concomitant of tragedy.…”
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CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE: CORRELATIONS BETWEEN THE EU DEPENDENCE-ATTITUDE MATRIX AND COOPERATION INTENSITY WITH CHINA by IULIA MONICA OEHLER-ȘINCAI

“…Our investigation underlines that: (1) higher levels of cooperation intensity with China are generally correlated with negative attitudes towards the EU, importance of national interests and need to develop balanced relations with major global actors; (2) lower levels of cooperation intensity with China correspond to euro-optimist/moderate stances, extreme dependence on the internal market or political inertia.…”
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LEADERSHIP BASED ON EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE IN MODERN ORGANIZATIONS by Camelia BĂEȘU

“…The leaders who promote the leadership based on emotional intelligence are inspired by their own values and are receptive to the emotions of the group members, creating an optimist energy based on trust and enthusiasm, by helping the group to reach the objectives. …”
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Leadership Excellence in East and West: Reports from the Trenches by G. J. Hofstede, R. M. Dooley

“…They were labeled: dependable optimist, approachable helmsman, focused people developer (universal); caring parent, proactive guide (eastern); passionate professional, vision-implementing team player (western). …”
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Obserwatora i uczestnika spojrzenia na wojnę albo o obojętności i zaangażowaniu by Roman Kwiecień

“…Unfortunately, taking into account a practise of domestic and international relations Kant turned out to be an excessive optimist.…”
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Technology Personalities in the Classroom: A New Classification System of TechTypes from Expert to Techy Turtle by Julie H. Oestreich, Jason W. Guy

“…The proposed personality types (TechTypes) include expert, budding guru, adventurer, cautious optimist, and techy turtle. Awareness of the advantages and disadvantages of each personality type—as well as one’s own technology personality—may guide the selection of collaborators and tailor technology training for future growth.…”
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Representasi Kepemimpinan Calon Presiden di Twitter by Nurul Hasfi, Sunyoto Usman, Hedi Pudjo Santosa

“…The character of the medium identified as interactive, participative and decentralized become main reasons why experts optimist on how this new media develop democratization. …”
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Portrayal of Women's Exploitation by Pakistani Female Writers: An Analysis of Selected Short Stories by Fahmida Riaz, Bina Shah, and Qaisra Shahraz: Kamla Bhasin's Understanding of... by Mehak Dahiyo, Salma Naz

“… This study is a feminist analysis of selected short stories such as Daughters of AAI by Fahmida Riaz, The Optimist by Bina Shah, The Elopement, The Discovery, and Perchanvah by Qaisra Shahraz in light of Bhasin's idea of Patriarchy. …”
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Unterstützung beim Übergang von der Schule zur Hochschule durch präzise Studieninformationen und Online-Self-Assessments by Svea Hasenberg, Kai Guttschick, Lothar Schmidt-Atzert, Gerhard Stemmler, Günter Kohlhaas, Marlene Schütz, Miriam Prüssner

“… Der Beitrag beschreibt das Projekt OptimiSt der Universität Marburg, das bei der Wahl eines individuell passenden Studiengangs Hilfestellung bietet. …”
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Portrayal of Women's Exploitation by Pakistani Female Writers: An Analysis of Selected Short Stories by Fahmida Riaz, Bina Shah, and Qaisra Shahraz: Kamla Bhasin's Understanding of... by Mehak Dahiyo, Salma Naz

“… This study is a feminist analysis of selected short stories such as Daughters of AAI by Fahmida Riaz, The Optimist by Bina Shah, The Elopement, The Discovery, and Perchanvah by Qaisra Shahraz in light of Bhasin's idea of Patriarchy. …”
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Assessment of stress coping strategies of handicapped sportsmen based on different variables by Meric Eraslan, Tonguc Vardar, Atilla Pulur

“…As a result of this research, it was understood that handicapped sportsmen moderately used confident attitude, desperate attitude, submissive attitude, request for social support and optimist attitude. It was also understood that stress coping strategies of handicapped sportsmen who participated in the research have significant differences based on their age, gender, branch of sports and years spent doing sports (p lt;0.05). …”
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The Question of Jean-Jacques Rousseau Revisited by Frederick Beiser

“…Cassirer’s interpretation makes an optimist of Rousseau, who allegedly believes the tension between natural and republican man can be overcome in history. …”
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Reality of Human Experience and the Search for Unity by Mario Mapote

“…Man either opts to accept reality and becomes an optimist or denies and becomes a pessimist. The study presented the reality of human experience. …”
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Pedagical enlightenment and natural education in Jean-Jacques Rousseau by Cristiano Eduardo Wendt, Claudio Almir Dalbosco

“…In this perspective, it analyzes the three main interpretations to which Rousseau’s enlightenment was submitted along history: As an optimist of reason, primitivist and dialectician of reason. …”
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From Confrontation to Understanding: In/exclusion of Alternative Voices in Online Discussion by Tamara Witschge

“…Academic literature on the potential uses of the internet to enhance democratic discussion in Western democracies almost always falls exclusively on one side of the optimist/pessimist divide. This article responds to the need for more situated knowledge, using an in-depth critical discourse analysis of the public debate on immigration in the Netherlands. …”
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Between determinism and phylogenesis by Luciano De Bonis, Stefano Simoncini

“…Their positions on the impact of the new information and telecommunication technologies were in fact diametrical: on one side the ‘techno-optimist’ McLuhan aimed at interpreting them as a potential ‘liberation’ in terms of physical and spiritual reconnection among humans and between Man and nature, on the other the ‘techno-sceptic’ Mumford, who saw them as a means of a definitive subjugation of the individual to a new form of centralised apparatus, the “megamachine”. …”
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Peran religiusitas dalam pembentukan konsep diri remaja by Desi Yustari Muchtar

“…It’s known that individual who have a positive self-concept always optimist, do new things, to success, not afraid to fail, have self-efficacy, enthusiastic, make a purpose of life, thinking positive, and become a leader that people can rely on. …”
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Physicians at the crossroad of prognosis and faith: practical help communicating with patients and families during the COVID-19 pandemic by Joshua K. Salabei, Troy J. Fishman, Steven J Schwartz, Peters Okonoboh, Uma G. Iyer

“…Based on this concept, the physician can be classified as a pessimist or an optimist with realistic or unrealistic expectations and communicate to patients with or without requisite empathy. …”
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