As clinicians delivering health care, we are very good at treating disease but often not as
good at treating the person. The focus of our attention has been on the specific physical …

Dispositional optimism is the generalized, relatively stable tendency to expect good
outcomes across important life domains. This article provides a representative review of 30 …

This review investigates the association between positive psychological well-being (PPWB)
and cardiovascular disease (CVD). We also consider the mechanisms by which PPWB may …

Importance Optimism and pessimism can be easily measured and are potentially modifiable
mindsets that may be associated with cardiovascular risk and all-cause mortality. Objective …

Growing evidence has linked positive psychological attributes like optimism to a lower risk of
poor health outcomes, especially cardiovascular disease. It has been demonstrated in …

Most research on exceptional longevity has investigated biomedical factors associated with
survival, but recent work suggests nonbiological factors are also important. Thus, we tested …

Traditionally, psychiatry has been defined and practiced as a branch of medicine focused on
the diagnosis and treatment of mental illnesses. Based on growing empirical evidence, we …

This randomised controlled experiment tested whether a brief subjective well-being
intervention would have favourable effects on cardiovascular and neuroendocrine function …

Objective: Inflammation increases the risk of chronic diseases, but the links between
emotional responses to daily events and inflammation are unknown. We examined …

Prior research has related dispositional optimism to physical health. Traditionally,
dispositional optimism is treated as a bipolar construct, anchored at one end by optimism …