The Pollyanna principle, also called the positivity bias is a tendency for people to remember pleasant items more accurately than unpleasant ones.

The Pollyanna principle is the tendency for people to remember pleasant items more accurately than unpleasant ones. If we remember the pleasant items or happenings in life, then it will have a ...

Hildy Gottlieb’s new book The Pollyanna Principles is a handbook for starting a revolution in social benefit organization design and practice, but it isn’t the revolution. What’s the catch? Well, it ...

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But today Pollyanna her name is synonymous with optimism — to a fault. Politicians and scholars alike attribute "the Pollyanna principle" to people who look on the bright side and hope for the ...

Karen Nimmo is a clinical psychologist. ADVICE: We all know people who live on the bright side of the road. Even when life is falling to pieces, they can find the positives, the gains, the ...

The Pollyanna Principle Named after this charming girl, the "Pollyanna principle" in psychology refers to the fact that we tend to look at the past with rose-tinted spectacles.

Hildy Gottlieb, consultant and president of the Community-Driven Institute, wishes to do away with two ideas that she thinks limit the ambitions and success of nonprofit organizations, and instead put ...

Panacea for depression? Does the Pollyanna principle help people suffering from depression, panic attacks or anxiety disorder? No.

I doubt that Pollyanna was familiar with the writings of Epictetus. But she certainly understood the principle that guided his philosophy.

Politicians and scholars alike attribute "the Pollyanna principle" to people who look on the bright side and hope for the best, no matter what.