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News
Optimism
- Wired Health: how do we harness self-monitored health data, Medical News Today (April 30, 2014) PDF VERSION
- Positivity not scaremongering could help you lose weight, Wired (April 29, 2014) PDF VERSION
- Positive thinking can trip into costly delusion, HeraldNet (April 12, 2014) PDF VERSION
- Want A Better Life? Be An Optimist – With a Twist, Forbes (March 17, 2014) PDF VERSION
- Cyber Security Risk: Perception vs. Reality in Corporate America, Wired (March 10, 2014) PDF VERSION
- Would you rather have time or money?, Forbes (December 20, 2013) PDF VERSION
- Psychology: Good and bad news on the adolescent brain, Nature (October 30, 2013) PDF VERSION
- Why We Make Bad Decisions, New York Times (October 19, 2013) PDF VERSION
- In Defence of Brain Rotting Cliches and Scientific Myths, The Guardian (October 15, 2013) PDF VERSION
- Young People Resist Bad News, Nature (September 26, 2013) PDF VERSION
- Youngsters Learn More From Good News Than Dire Warnings, Science World Report (September 22, 2013) PDF VERSION
- Your Child’s Fat, Mine’s Fine: Rose-Colored Glasses and the Obesity Epidemic, National Public Radio Health News (March 4, 2013) PDF VERSION
- January’s Stock Temptation, New York Times (January 1, 2013) PDF VERSION
- Why humans look on the bright side, Sydney Morning Herald (January 1, 2013) PDF VERSION
- Optimism bias: Why the young and the old tend to look on the bright side, Washington Post (December 31, 2012) PDF VERSION
- Resolutions: So Irresistible, So Hard to Keep, Wall Street Journal (December 17, 2012) PDF VERSION
- Why We’re Born Optimists, and Why That’s Good, The Atlantic (December 13, 2012) PDF VERSION
- How happiness changes with age, BBC (December 4, 2012) PDF VERSION
- How the brain filters bad news, The Guardian (September 25, 2012) PDF VERSION
- Removing the Optimism Bias, The Scientist (September 24, 2012) PDF VERSION
- Researchers identify brain region that generates optimism bias, Wired(September 26, 2012) PDF VERSION
- Why we fool ourselves into optimism, CNN (June 27, 2012) PDF VERSION
- 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
Decision Making
- Dopamine levels in brain ‘influence decision making’, BBC News (Jan 8, 2010) PDF VERSION
- Can Dopamine Make Your Future Look Brighter?, Time Magazine (Nov 27, 2009) PDF VERSION
- Scientist identify brain regions that help us make choices, The Telegraph (Mar 27, 2009) PDF VERSION
Memory
- Thanks for the memories, PsychPost (1 July, 2011) PDF VERSION
- 9/11 memroies reveal how flashbulb memories are made in the brain, Discover Magazine (14 Oct, 2008) PDF VERSION
- Report Links 9/11 Memories to Proximity, Washington Post (Dec 18, 2006) (The Associated Press) PDF VERSION
Videos
TED talk
RSA talk
Redes documentary on optimism (in English)
Redes documentary on optimism (in Spanish)
Interview with Tali Sharot
Laughing in the face of reality
Podcasts
Health News feature on National Public Radio
- Your Child’s Fat, Mine’s Fine: Rose Colored Glasses and the Obesity Academic Health News feature on National Public Radio, broadcast March 4th 2013.
RSA podcast
- Listen to a podcast of Tali Sharot talking about the Optimism Bias recorded at The RSA, London, January 19th 2012.
Packed Lunch podcast
- Tali Sharot on optimism, podcast recorded at The Wellcome Collection, London.
