Optimism is a cognitive construct (expectancies regarding future outcomes) that also relates
to motivation: optimistic people exert effort, whereas pessimistic people disengage from …

During the many idle moments that comprise daily life, the human brain increases its activity
across a set of midline and lateral cortical brain regions known as the “default network.” …

We present an approach to synthesizing photographic images conditioned on semantic
layouts. Given a semantic label map, our approach produces an image with photographic …

Cultivating motivation is crucial to a language learner's success–and therefore crucial for the
language teacher and researcher to understand. The third edition of Teaching and …

The waking mind is often occupied with mental contents that are minimally constrained by
events in the here and now. These self-generated thoughts—eg, mind-wandering or …

People display unrealistic optimism in their predictions about countless events, believing
that their personal future outcomes will be more desirable than can possibly be true. We …

In this comment, we contrast different conceptions of mind wandering that were presented in
2 recent theoretical reviews: Smallwood and Schooler (2006) and Watkins (2008). We also …

Researchers have used terms such as unrealistic optimism and optimistic bias to refer to
concepts that are similar but not synonymous. Drawing from 3 decades of research, we …

Experiential Learning enables educators, trainers, coaches and facilitators to unleash some
of the more potent ingredients of learning through experience. It presents a simple model …

This article reports on a study involving first‐year modern foreign languages students
enrolled in German degree courses at two major universities in the United Kingdom. It …