"Lower interest rates and higher stock prices are helping to boost optimism, particularly in high-income families.
Darrell Clarke has proven to be an astute manager and securing a permanent deal for the influential midfielder Chris Lines, who was on loan from Port Vale for last season's run-in, will boost optimism, even if the off-field picture is murkier.
A nudge to the banking sector from Washington earlier in the day likely boosted optimism that the new capital flowing into financial firms will be put to use in lending to Corporate America.
C1 Cisco Results Boost Optimism Cisco Systems reported second-quarter earnings that exceeded analysts' expectations slightly and provided further evidence that a slow but steady recovery in the technology industries is under way.
Likewise, seek to find the best in each student; helping them to see their good qualities will boost their optimism, mindset and perseverance.
Strangely, however, this spending spree has boosted the optimism of owners and racing officials in an industry that spent the first half of the 1990's recovering from the bust of its last boom market and the second half of the decade trying to position itself as an entertainment option in a crowded sports market.
Reflecting on the past can boost your optimism for the future because it raises your self-esteem, according to a Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin study.
According to Dr. Robert Emmons, author of the book, Thanks!: How the New Science of Gratitude Can Make You Happier, researchers have found that the gratitude practice boosts happiness, optimism, personal satisfaction, and motivates us to exercise 1.5 more often per week.
Our data provide novel evidence that pharmacological manipulation of the neurotransmitter dopamine alters the efficiency of human belief updating, reducing negative expectations in a manner that leads to a boosting of unrealistic optimism.
