The Glass is Half Full and Half Empty: A population-representative twin study testing if Optimism and Pessimism are distinct systems.

Edinburgh Research Explorer the Glass Is Half Full and Half Empty: a Population-representative Twin Study Testing If Optimism and Pessimism Are Distinct Systems

Optimism and pessimism are associated with important outcomes including health and depression. Yet it is unclear if these apparent polar opposites form a single dimension or reflect two distinct systems. The extent to which personality accounts for differences in optimism/pessimism is also controversial. Here, we addressed these questions in a genetically informative sample of 852 pairs of twin...

Is the glass half empty or half full? A prospective study of optimism and coronary heart disease in the normative aging study.

OBJECTIVE A sense of optimism, which derives from the ways individuals explain causes of daily events, has been shown to protect health, whereas pessimism has been linked to poor physical health. We examined prospectively the relationship of an optimistic or pessimistic explanatory style with coronary heart disease incidence in the Veterans Affairs Normative Aging Study, an ongoing cohort of ol...

Comparison of supraspinatus sonographic thickness in empty can, full can and hug up testing positions in healthy women

Background: Rotator cuff injuries are the most common causes of shoulder pain and supraspinatus muscle is usually involved. Clinical tests are available and inexpensive tools for assessment of shoulder dysfunctions. The empty can (EC) and full can (FC) tests are considered as shoulder gold standard tests. Recently, hug up (HU) test has been developed to assess the supraspinatus. So far, no ultr...

Let’s Raise a Half-Full Glass to the Zombie NHS: A Response to Recent Commentaries

From Almost Empty to Half Full? A Response to Recent Commentaries