Brains of optimists tick the same way

Brains of optimists tick the same way

When optimists think about future events, their neuronal activity patterns are similar. The pessimists, on the other hand, are much more diverse. © Asano Kohei, Sugiura Hitomi

Optimists usually have better social networks and are socially integrated than pessimists. An experiment could now explain why this is so. Accordingly, the brains of optimists work very similarly when it comes to the presentation of future developments and events. The pessimists’ thinking organs, on the other hand, show a much greater measure

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