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Showing 1 to 20 of 132 for “"Pessimism"”.
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A critical evaluation of pessimism
Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State College of Agriculture and Applied Science. Dept. of Philosophy, 1948
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Beyond the kinship of pessimism: Beckett’s Schopenhauer
No abstract supplied with thesis
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Exchange rate pessimism in Tanzanian macroeconomic policy
To correct balance of payments disequilibria many developing countries are experiencing, attention is focused on visible trade deficit because capital markets are almost non-existent, capital mobility is strictly controlled and service trade is underdeveloped. Economic theory recommends devaluation …
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Beyond Mourning: Afro-Pessimism in Contemporary African American Fiction
This thesis engages questions about the relationship between black life and black pain within the confines of a racist society to defend black subjects from the continued violence of systemic racism. Through a reading of three contemporary African American fiction texts, this thesis considers the …
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Schopenhauer's Pessimism and Kant's Moral Argument
… gives good grounds to reject Schopenhauer's pessimism. I begin by defining pessimism as the view that "life is not choiceworthy," and dispelling some initial objections to it. Having established that pessimism doesn't succumb to obvious objections, I develop three lines of argument that tell …
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Religious Problem-Solving and Explanatory Style: Relationships Between Religious Coping and Pessimism
… attributional style, and dispositional optimism-pessimism. It also seeks to determine the degree to which these styles predict depressive symptoms. Ninety-three students enrolled in psychology classes received credit for completing questionnaires regarding explanatory style, religious coping, …
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"Hoping without Hope": Positive Pessimism in the Literary Works of Marlen Haushofer Sibylle Berg
This dissertation offers a reading of select texts by literary writers Marlen Haushofer and Sibylle Berg as "positively pessimistic". Via three chapters, I engage in close textual analysis and place Haushofer’s novels Die Wand and Die Mansarde into conversation with Berg’s Vielen Dank für das Leben …
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Influence of Outcome Expectancy on Optimisim, Pessimism, Anxiety and Self-Confidence in Collegiate Football Players
… expectation or perception of the future, and pessimism refers to a negative expectation or perception (Scheier & Carver, 1993). Anxiety, though often given a negative connotation, has shown facilitative effects on performance (Mellalieu, Hanton, & Jones, 2003). Whether anxiety is facilitative …
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Positive and Negative Affect: Differential Impact of Optimism, Pessimism, and Coping in People Living with HIV/AIDS
… and overall depression, the role of optimism, pessimism, active coping, denial, and behavioral disengagement is not as clear. Pessimism and denial predict negative affect and depression. Optimism and behavioral disengagement predict depression and positive affect. Active coping only predicts …
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The Effects of Biopsychosocial Explanations of Social Anxiety Disorder on Stigma, Prognostic Pessimism, and Perceptions of Mental Health Treatments
… of SAD on ratings of stigma, prognostic pessimism, and perceptions of treatment effectiveness. 252 participants were randomized to receive either a brief psychoeducational video describing a biological explanation of SAD, a brief psycho-educational video containing a biopsychosocial …
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In the Shadow of Anaximander: Philosophical Temperaments and Schopenhauerian Pessimism in Nietzsche's Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks
… outlook and the attempt to deal with the pessimism of Schopenhauer. The former problem is examined by viewing the Pre-Platonic philosophers as "philosophical archetypes" whose "unmixed" outlooks are the result of their monolithic characters. These primordial philosophical types have …
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Burnout in academics : the role of humour and optimism as stress buffers
… use of humour to cope with stress, optimism, pessimism, and burnout was investigated. Participants included 180 lecturers from a range of Perth universities and disciplines. Questionnaire packages were delivered to the participants at their universities and were later returned to the …
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Can Animal Spirits Solve The Forward Premium Puzzle?
… inducing fear of model misspecification, or pessimism, in international households. The forward premium bias, produced from a collapse in uncovered interest parity (UIP), is a direct function of pessimism. Under various regimes of pessimism, the forward premium estimator emulates both …
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Textual Analysis of Management Tone during Conference Calls and the Impact on Capital Markets
… the end of the quarter. Results indicate that pessimism is significantly related to decreased analyst accuracy. A one percent increase in the pessimism of a conference call results in a decrease in analyst accuracy by approximately 10%. In addition, an increase in pessimism is associated with …
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Ideology, Truthmaking and Fundamentality
… outline two conceptions of ideology: ideological pessimism and ideological realism. Ideological pessimism is the view that ideological inquiry has dim prospects insofar as ideology is tied to meaning. Ideological realism is the view that there is a fact of the matter about which ideology is taken …
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