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OptimismThe Matt Townsend Show • Season 4, Episode 99, Segment 1

May 15, 2015 • 47m

Elizabeth Tenney, assistant Professor of Management at the David Eccles School of Business. She co-wrote the paper “(Too) Optimistic About Optimism: The Belief that Optimism Improves Performance,” which has been published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. She talks with Dr. Townsend here findings on if optimism improve performance.

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