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Those with a positive explanatory style are more successful. They outperform pessimistic peers by close to 40 percent in business and sales, and also experience lower rates of illness and depression.
Some researchers, including the "positive psychologist," Martin Seligman, frame positive thinking as an explanatory style. An explanatory style is how you explain why events happened.
With a positive explanatory style, you are more optimistic and believe that bad events occur due to external factors.
The October 2015 study, “Positive Affect and Health Behaviors Across 5 Years in Patients With Coronary Heart Disease,” was published in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine. For this study, the ...
Shift your explanatory style In the late 1990s, psychologists Gregory Buchanan and Martin Seligman coined the term “ explanatory style ” to describe the way people interpret events that happen ...
Some researchers, including the "positive psychologist," Martin Seligman, frame positive thinking as an explanatory style. An ...
The October 2015 study, “Positive Affect and Health Behaviors Across 5 Years in Patients With Coronary Heart Disease,” was published in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine. For this study, the ...