Optimism

• Neural Responses Reveal Our Optimistic Bent, Scientific American (April 10, 2012) _{PDF VERSION}
• The optimism bias: reasons to be cheerful (interview), The Guardian (Jan 1, 2012)_{PDF VERSION}
• The optimism bias (book extract), The Guardian (Jan 1, 2012) _{PDF VERSION}
• Brain Imaging Reveals Why Optimists Are The Way They Are, Huffington Post(Oct 11, 2011) _{PDF VERSION}
• Brain ‘rejects negative thoughts’, BBC (Oct 9, 2011) _{PDF VERSION}
• Blame ‘Faulty’ Frontal Lobe Function for Undying Optimism in Face of Reality,Science Daily (Oct 9, 2011) _{PDF VERSION}

• Optimism is (still) in, Forbes (July 13, 2011) _{PDF VERSION}
• Cheer up, you’re really an optimist, Toronto Star (July 8, 2011) _{PDF VERSION}
• The Human Brain: Optimism Bias, Examiner (July 7, 2011) _{PDF VERSION}
• Illusions and reality, Time (June 6, 2011) _{PDF VERSION}
• Morning Links: Squid Watch, The Wall Street Journal (May 31, 2011) _{PDF VERSION}

• The Optimism Bias, TIME magazine (May 28, 2011) _{PDF VERSION}
• Major Delusions, New York Times (May 14, 2011) _{PDF VERSION}

• The ups of being down, The Sunday Times (July, 2009)
• Except in one career, our brains seem built for optimism, The Wall Street Journal(Nov 9, 2007) _{PDF VERSION}
• Optimism lights up a brain part, LA Times (Oct 29, 2007) _{PDF VERSION}
• This is Your Brain on Optimism, Newsweek (Oct 24, 2007) _{PDF VERSION}
• Brain regions responsible for optimism located, Reuters (Oct 24, 2007) _{PDF VERSION}
• Source of ‘optimism’ found in the brain, NewScientist (Oct 24, 2007) _{PDF VERSION}