SOURCES:
The Journals of Gerontology: “Survival Advantage Mechanism: Inflammation as a Mediator of Positive Self-Perceptions of Aging on Longevity.”
American Journal of Epidemiology: “Optimism and Cause-Specific Mortality: A Prospective Cohort Study.”
The American Journal of Cardiology: “Effect of Positive Well-Being on Incidence of Symptomatic Coronary Artery Disease”
Clinical Psychology Review: “Optimism.”
Psychosomatic Medicine: “Positive emotional style predicts resistance to illness after experimental exposure to rhinovirus or influenza a virus.”
Psychological Science: “Optimistic Expectancies and Cell-Mediated Immunity: The Role of Positive Affect.”
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: “Optimism is associated with mood, coping, and immune change in response to stress.”
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: “Effects of optimism, pessimism, and trait anxiety on ambulatory blood pressure and mood during everyday life.”
Journal of Research and Reflections in Education: “Positive Thinking in Coping with Stress and Health outcomes: Literature Review.”
Pain: “Temporomandibular disorder and optimism: relationships to ischemic pain sensitivity and interleukin-6.”
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: “Positive affect facilitates creative problem solving.”
Medical Decision Making: “The influence of positive affect on clinical problem solving.”
Journal of Clinical Psychology: “Worry changes decision making: The effect of negative thoughts on cognitive processing.”
Open Access Journal of Clinical Trials: “Randomized Controlled Trial of a Positive Affect Intervention to Reduce Stress in People Newly Diagnosed with HIV; Protocol and Design for the IRISS Study.”
Psycho-oncology: “A randomized pilot trial of a positive affect skill intervention (lessons in linking affect and coping) for women with metastatic breast cancer.”
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: “Open Hearts Build Lives: Positive Emotions, Induced Through Loving-Kindness Meditation, Build Consequential Personal Resources.”
Mayo Clinic: “Positive thinking: Stop negative self-talk to reduce stress.”
Psychological Science: “Grin and bear it: the influence of manipulated facial expression on the stress response.”
Johns Hopkins Medicine: “The Power of Positive Thinking.”
The Greater Good Science Center at the University of California, Berkeley: “Greater Good in Action.”
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: “Counting blessings versus burdens: an experimental investigation of gratitude and subjective well-being in daily life.”
American Psychologist: “Positive Psychology Progress: Empirical Validation of Interventions.”
