Being Positive About Negative Facts

Being more positive about negative ventilation?

Mechanical ventilation is undoubtedly a lifesaving procedure for patients with acute respiratory failure [1]. Unfortunately the procedure is also associated with a number of unwanted side-effects. Firstly, until recently, mechanical ventilation required endotracheal intubation either through a tracheostomy or with a translaryngeal tube, procedures which can carry some risks [2, 3]. Secondly, by...

Being Positive about Selection

H ow has language developed in humans and what genetic changes underlie our unique cognitive abilities? Accounts of positive selection that lead to such abilities in humans fascinate us because of the insight they provide into our own evolution, and into the many genetic differences that distinguish us from other apes. The genes that became fi xed in our lineage as a result of positive selectio...

A Cross-Cultural Study about Positive and Negative Emotions and Its Relation to Health and Well-being

The new stylized facts about income and subjective well-being.

Economists in recent decades have turned their attention to data that asks people how happy or satisfied they are with their lives. Much of the early research concluded that the role of income in determining well-being was limited, and that only income relative to others was related to well-being. In this paper, we review the evidence to assess the importance of absolute and relative income in ...

Parental Reminiscing About Positive and Negative Events

We examined how 67 parent–child dyads talked about 2 emotionally laden events: an injury resulting in emergency room treatment and an individually nominated, positively valenced experience. Group differences were found in parental reminiscing between positive and negative events such that parents asked a higher proportion of open-ended memory questions in conversations about negative experience...