A Brief Study on Human Behavior:
A study on human behavior has disclosed that 90% of individuals may be sorted into four basic temperament types: Optimistic, hopeless, Trusting, and jealous. Envious (jealously), is the most ordinary, with 30% compared to 20% for each of the other types. The remaining 10% is an undefined group, which the algorithm is unable to classify in relation to a clear type of behavior.
The researchers dispute that this permits them to presume the presence of a broad range of subgroups made up of individuals who do not behave in a determined way to any of the outlined models. After completing this sort of social experiment, the researchers created an algorithm that grouped people according to their behavior.
The algorithm arranged 90% of people into four groups: the largest group, being the Envious, accounting for 30%, those who do not mind what they achieve, as long as they are better than everyone else; next are the optimists, on 20%, who believe they and their partner will make the best choice for both of them.
Also, 20% are the pessimists, they select the option they see as the different types of pessimists lesser of two evils. Then there is the trusting group -- who are born collaborators and who will always cooperate and who do not really mind if they win or lose.
What is the distinction Between an Optimistic individual and a Pessimist?
The philosophy is that: A person who believes that this world is the best of all possible worlds or that good must ultimately win over evil.
A pessimist according to the dictionary: a person who tends to see the worst aspect of things or believe that the worst will happen. And the philosophy (for a pessimist) is that: A person who believes that this world is as bad as it could be or that evil will eventually triumph over good.
6 Different Types of Pessimists:
There are 6 different types of pessimists:
1. Defensive pessimism, is the process of reviewing a strategy, decision, plan of the state, action, or outcome as critically as possible to uncover possible issues.
2. Risk aversion is when you have a low-risk tolerance
3. Negative bias is when you focus on negative information.
4. Rosy retrospection is a tendency to remember the past experience to be better then it was
5. Rosy retrospection is perseverance for the same to have stability
6. Defeatism is when it starts interfering with performance.
8 Different Types of Optimists:
There are eight different styles of optimism.
1. Dispositional optimism is outlined as a worldwide expectation that higher (desirable) things than unhealthy (undesirable) can happen within the future.
2. False optimism: (Weinstein, 1989) describes the target pair between the expectations of dispositional optimism and reckoner proof concerning the chance of life events happening.
3. Optimism as attributional style views optimism as a style of reasoning about the cause (Buchanan & Seligman, 1995).
4. Comparative optimism (Radcliffe and Klein, 2002) is the viewpoint of the chance of good outcomes for yourself compared with a similar other.
5. Situational optimism refers to the overall expectations of a decent outcome in a very specific context.
6. Strategic optimism (Ruthig et al., 2007) is a domain-specific denial of risk based on a belief in having control.
7. Realistic optimism is defined by Sneider (2001) with reference to Degrandpre (2000) as the ‘tendency to maintain a positive outlook within the constraints of the available measurable phenomena situated in the physical and social world’.
8. Optimism bias refers to the way knowledge evaluation has been shown to be skewed in predictable, positive, and selfish ways.
Comparison:
What Benefits does a Pessimistic Person have?
• Nothing shocks a pessimist
• Folks and Things won't let down you.
• Pessimists know when to give up and not spend a decade with a task they think they cannot achieve
• You cannot make fun of them They have been through worse, or they think that they are so much worse than nothing hits them.
• Pessimists are less bothered by stress.
• They are not bubbling with joy in good situations or too depressed in bad situations. (But cannot really enjoy their success because they think it was only luck)
What are the health edges of being an optimist?
What health benefits did studies find that being an optimist has.
1. Optimists less suffer from anxiety and depression.
2. They are physically healthier, having a healthy mind in a healthy body.
3. Optimism can boost your immune system. 4. Optimists are less likely to get a chronic illness
5. They have fewer heart problems
6. They are less likely to die from accidental or violent events
7. Optimists perform better and achieve their goals quicker.
8. They are less stressed In the end, studies show that optimists live longer.
How to become more optimistic?
Being an optimist has 25% to do with your inheritance. It is shown that when there is an optimistic thought the left side of the brain shows activity. While with negative thoughts it shows activity on the right side.
If you feel you are part of 75% here are some suggestions about what you can do to change your mindset and become optimistic.
• Amend each negative thought into a positive one.
• Surround yourself with optimistic people ( at least one)).
• Avoid the news as much as you can, listen to the headlines only.
• Write down your gratitude as often as you can.
• Think of the best possible outcome.
• Acknowledge what you can and cannot control.
• Do acknowledge the negative, do not linger on it but be realistic. Negative things will happen, it is the way you handle them is that makes the difference.
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