Costs and benefits of realism and optimism

L Bortolotti, M Antrobus - Current opinion in psychiatry, 2015 - journals.lww.com
We should revisit the hypothesis that optimistic cognitions are psychologically adaptive,
whereas realistic thinking is not. Realistic beliefs and expectations can be conducive to …

The influence of product involvement and emotion on short-term product demand forecasting

V Belvedere, P Goodwin - International Journal of Forecasting, 2017 - Elsevier
Sales forecasters in industries like fast-fashion face challenges posed by short and highly
volatile sales time series. Computers can produce statistical forecasts, but these are often …

Knowledge Legacy of the 2010 Fifa World Cup in South Africa

WJL Coetzee - … Strategies and Organizational Culture in Tourism, 2024 - taylorfrancis.com
South Africa competed to host the 2010 FIFA World Cup and justified the bid because the
World Cup™ would purportedly mean that some important legacies would prevail in the …

Epistemic and psychological benefits of depression

MA Antrobus - 2018 - etheses.bham.ac.uk
In this thesis I propose a new way of understanding depressive illness as not exclusively
harmful, but as related to particular, empirically evidenced, epistemic and pragmatic benefits …

[PDF][PDF] The Impact of Depressive Symptoms on 5C Varsity Athletic Performance

H Robinowitz, G Smith - 2022 - economics-files.pomona.edu
Collegiate sports make over $18 billion for athletic departments across the country (Butts
2021). Because of this, a lot of funding and research goes into ensuring that athletes are …