Organizations may be better able to tame optimism than individuals are.

A large portion of the weekend effects is explained by differences in the amount of time spent with friends or family between weekends and weekdays.

There are some conditions where you have to trust your intuition.

The psychologist, Paul Rozin, an expert on disgust, observed that a single cockroach will completely wreck the appeal of a bowl of cherries, but a cherry will do nothing at all for a bowl of cockroaches.

Acquisition of skills requires a regular environment, an adequate opportunity to practice, and rapid and unequivocal feedback about the correctness of thoughts and actions.

One emphasis of my research has been on the question of how people spend their time. Time is the ultimate finite resource, or course, so the question of how people spend it would seem to be important.

The dominance of conclusions over arguments is most pronounced where emotions are involved.