Imagine that you’ve just submitted an application for something important to you: Perhaps it was a dream job, the perfect apartment, or an academic program you’re passionate about. As you’re waiting ...

Have you met someone who is always optimistic? It doesn’t matter what’s going on in the world around them. They are capable of seeing the good in everything and everyone and make it look effortless.

Americans are more hopeful heading into 2025 than they were during the same time last year, according to new polling. Photo from Logan Voss, UnSplash Americans are more optimistic about 2025 than they ...

Hope is emerging as a viable scientific positive emotion worthy of direct investigation. Unique among all the positive emotions, hope requires some degree of dissonance, difficulty, negativity, or ...

President Joe Biden will convene world leaders beginning on March 29, 2023, to discuss the state of democracies around the world. The Summit for Democracy, a virtual event being co-hosted by the White ...

Hope is a difficult feeling to foster when uncertainty, disappointment and dismay are much easier emotions to explore. There’s no risk of being let down if you’re already expecting the worst, so we ...