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optimism, pessimism, and health  

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  • The concepts of optimism and pessimism concern people's expectations for the future. These concepts have ties both to centuries of folk wisdom and to a class of psychological theories of motivation, which as a group are called expectancy-value theories. [Source: Encyclopedia of Health and Behavior; Optimism, Pessimism, and Health]

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