Pessimism has become both widespread and persistent. In America consumer sentiment is near its lowest on record. Across ...

Are you more of an optimist or a pessimist? It’s important to realize because as a leader, it can affect not just you and how you think, but also the culture you create and what the people you lead ...

Apocalyptic economic visions of bread lines, riots are drawing eyeballs online. April 9, 2009— -- People are logging onto the Internet to read all sorts of dire economic predictions: a new Great ...

Those who haven’t struggled with any form of mental illness find it difficult to understand the rigidity of highly negative, and even obviously false, beliefs. They wonder how it’s possible that ...

“Americans are far too pessimistic about the future,” declared CNN’s Fareed Zakaria in an op-ed published last month. Zakaria focused on economics, arguing that a “profound sense of despair” among ...

Supporters of President Donald Trump wave an American flag in front of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. (Ed Ou for The Washington Post) The Jan. 6 editorial, “The dangerous revisionism of Jan. 6,” ...

The amount of pessimism, uncertainty and disconnect employees experience in the workplace is “reaching critical levels, endangering employee well-being and undermining productivity,” according to ...

Cowritten by Eser Yilmaz & Tchiki Davis. Pessimists typically have a gloomy or skeptical outlook, also known as “seeing the glass half empty.” As a result, they may focus heavily on what can go wrong, ...

The bearish sentiment, measured by the American Association of Individual Investors (AAII) Sentiment Survey, continued breaking records for another week, however, experts expect to see a “relief rally ...

In the aftermath of the 2024 elections, Democrats are less optimistic about their party’s future than they’ve been at any point in the past eight years, according to new Pew Research Center polling ...