- Being Too Positive Is Problematic in Bipolar Disorder @ Psych Central News - “Bipolar disorder is characterized by extreme periods of positive mood, or mania. When a person is in a manic state, they have increased energy, sleep less, and experience extreme self-confidence.For many of us, these characteristics would seem desirable. Sadly, in bipolar disorder, people often take dangerous risks, run up credit card debt, and wreak havoc in marriages.
Optimism Bias
- @Wikipedia - “Four factors exist that cause a person to be optimistically biased: their desired end state, their cognitive mechanisms, the information they have about themselves versus others, and overall mood.”
- @Very Well - “It can also lead to poor decision-making, which can sometimes have disastrous results. People might skip their yearly physical, not wear their seatbelt, miss adding money to their emergency savings account, or fail to put on sunscreen because they mistakenly believe that they are less likely to get sick, get in an accident, need extra cash, or get skin cancer.”
- @Sicotests - “Research has uncovered several factors that amplify or inhibit the probability that individuals will underestimate some risk. When individuals feel anxious or unconfident, for instance, optimism bias tends to diminish.”
Pollyanna principle
- @Wikipedia - “The Pollyanna principle (also called Pollyannaism or positivity bias) is the tendency for people to remember pleasant items more accurately than unpleasant ones.Research[citation needed] indicates that at the subconscious level, the mind has a tendency to focus on the optimistic; while at the conscious level, it has a tendency to focus on the negative.”
- Pollyanna Principle: On a Constant Quest For What's Right @Positive Psychology Program - “In 1991, Skowronski, Betz, Thompson, and Shannon performed a research on undergraduate psychology students and their daily experiences. The results showed that students recalled pleasant events more accurately than unpleasant ones. The researchers also have enough support to prove that the students recalled extremely pleasant or extremely unpleasant events more accurately when compared to more neutral events.”
- The Pollyanna Principle @ Seeking Alpha - “This novel describes a girl who plays the "glad game" (like the sell-side pundits) trying to find something to be glad about in every situation (oil prices lower, Fed's cautious stance, the ECB's generosity, etc.). The issue with the Pollyanna principle, such as with unabated liquidity injections by central banks is that researchers Margaret Matlin and David Stang provided substantial evidence that the more people expose themselves to positive stimuli and avoid negative stimuli, the longer they take to recognize what is unpleasant or threatening than what is pleasant and safe, and they report that they encounter positive stimuli more frequently than they actually do.”
- The Pollyanna Phenomenon and Non-Inferiority: How Our Experience (and Research) Can Lead to Poor Treatment Choices « Science-Based Medicine - “There is a phenomenon in medicine, again named after the overly optimistic heroine Pollyanna, that augments the negative impact of the fallibility of human memory on medical practice with the bias towards an overly optimistic interpretation of some types of medical research and of our own clinical experience. This Pollyanna phenomenon can lead physicians to make poor choices, especially regarding which antibiotic is the best choice for a particular infection. And this is particularly common in pediatric practice, in my opinion.”
- The Pollyanna Principle @ Kristen Nuhler.com - “Distortions can clearly serve a protective function. In a test involving a set of pictures, older people tend to remember fewer distressing images (like snakes) and more pleasant ones (like Ferris wheels) than younger people. By giving a profound shape to aging, this tendency can make for a softer, rounder old age, but also a deluded one.”
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Cyclothymia
Hyperthymic temperament
Euthymia (medicine)
- @Wikipedia - The smile mask syndrome has also been identified in Korea. Korean writer Bae Woo-ri noted that smiling gives one a competitive advantage over the others, and has become a necessary attribute of many employees, just like a "neat uniform." Yoon-Do-rahm, a psychology counselor, compared the current society, full of smile-masks, to a clown show; both characterized by plentiful, yet empty and fake, smiles.Smile mask syndrome can cause physical problems as well as mental ones. Natsume relates that many of his patients developed muscle aches and headaches as a result of prolonged smiling, and says that these are similar to the symptoms of repetitive strain injury."
- smile mask syndrome Archives @ Dynamics of Dentistry - "If that weren’t enough, this syndrome is also causing physical problems. Headaches and sore jaws have been reported. It’s not difficult to realize that constant contraction of the zygomaticus major muscles leads to symptoms of repetitive strain injury. Many women find themselves increasingly unable to “turn off” these smiles."
- The Ethnopsychology Blog: Smile-Mask Syndrome - ". After a day of smiling, he says, these women find themselves increasingly unable to turn off the smile. Even devastating bad news can't wipe the inappropriate smile off their faces, much to their distress."
- A Look into the Realm of Syndromes @ The Yonsei Annals - "Those with this syndrome only recall pleasant memories and erase the undesirable ones. They are nostalgic about the past and consider it as a means to escape from their present difficulties."
Potemkin village
- @Wikipedia - "In politics and economics, a Potemkin village (also Potyomkin village, derived from the Russian: Потёмкинские деревни, Russian pronunciation: [pɐˈtʲɵmkʲɪnskʲɪɪ dʲɪˈrʲɛvnʲɪ] Potyomkinskiye derevni) is any construction (literal or figurative) built solely to deceive others into thinking that a situation is better than it really is. The term comes from stories of a fake portable village, built only to impress Empress Catherine II during her journey to Crimea in 1787. While some modern historians claim accounts of this portable village are exaggerated, the original story was that Grigory Potemkin erected the fake portable settlement along the banks of the Dnieper River in order to fool the Russian Empress."
magical thinking
- @Out of the FOG -”What it Looks Like:An athlete thinks wearing a certain piece of clothing will ensure victory.A woman believes walking on a certain side of the street will bring personal misfortune.A man believes his dreams predict the future or give him insight into the intentions of others.A person believes their personal wellbeing or fortune is attributed to a religious observance.A mother believes their child will get sick if they do not perform a specific bath time ritual.”
- Why Everyone Believes in Magic (Even You) @ Live Science - Mojo and cooties.Mind power.Meaning of life.Roll of the dice
- The Mind Knows No Bounds @ Forbes - Objects Carry Essences.Symbols Have Power.Actions Have Distant Consequences. The Soul Lives On. The World Is Alive. Everything Happens For A Reason.
- Magical Thinking @ Psychology Today - 1. Anything can be sacred.2. Anything can be cursed.3. Mind rules over matter.4. Rituals bring good luck.5. To name is to rule.6. Karma's a bitch.7. The world is alive.
- Magical Thinking @ Logically Fallacious - “Magical thinking often causes one to experience irrational fear of performing certain acts or having certain thoughts because they assume a correlation with their acts and threatening calamities.”
- magical thinking @ The Skeptic's Dictionary - “Magical thinking' is the interpreting of two closely occurring events as though one caused the other, without any concern for the causal link”
- The Seven Principles of Magical Thinking uploaded by hennicdesign - “The Seven Principles of Magical Thinking explores the irrational belief that ones thoughts, actions, or words can affect the outcome of situations and events. The integration of hand drawn illustrations with photographic imagery visually convey the boundary between the real and unreal. Experiences that defy reason and rationality often occur and question our own systems of logic.”
- Magical thinking @ RationalWiki - “Science and the scientific method are designed to elucidate causal relationships through careful controlled experiments; magical thinking, given a correlation with an observed effect, pulls a causation out of thin air. For example, coming to believe that a particular piece of jewelry is lucky because a few good things happened when it was worn.”
- Magical Thinking @ Rapture Ready
- Magical Thinking @ Psychology Today - “Emotional stress and events of personal significance push us strongly toward magical meaning-making....People will often acknowledge their gut reaction and say it makes no sense to act on it—but do it anyway. Other times, they'll incorporate superstition into their worldview alongside other explanations. “
- @Wikipedia - “Magical thinking may lead people to believe that their thoughts by themselves can bring about effects in the world or that thinking something corresponds with doing it. It is a type of causal reasoning or causal fallacy that looks for meaningful relationships of grouped phenomena (coincidence) between acts and events.”
Positive illusions
happiness = psychological disorder
- Why happiness is actually a psychological disorder
- NCBI ROFL: A proposal to classify happiness as a psychiatric disorder. - Discoblog : Discoblog
- A hazy memory of the happiness disorder – Mind Hacks
- Major Affective Disorder, Pleasant Type | OlyEats
- The Best Scholarly Article You Might Ever Read - Self-Portrait as
- Is happiness a mental disorder? - Happiness - Discuss the Science of People
- Happiness As A Psychiatric Disorder
- language goes on holiday: Major affective disorder, pleasant type
- Is happiness a mental disorder?
- Major Affective Disorder, Pleasant Type: Add it to DSM-5? – The Practical Psychosomaticist
- Happiness Syndrome - a serious mental disorder
- The happiness syndrome: methodological and substantive issues in the study of social-psychological well-being in adulthood. - PubMed - NCBI
- Is over Happiness a Psychological Disorder? - Biology | Chemistry | Environmental | Management | Medical | Technology Blog - Science Blog
- The Happiness Syndrome: Methodological and Substantive Issues in the Study of Social-Psychological Well-being in Adulthood
- BU Personal Websites - Faculty
- Positive People Solutions: <h2>Deferred happiness syndrome</h2>
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