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“or she would choose the treatment option that the experts saw as “best,” in this case taking the medication. But in the Dartmouth study, this was not what happened. When given clearer information, the patients weighed the risks and benefits” quote by Jerome Groopman — Download Open image

““or she would choose the treatment option that the experts saw as “best,” in this case taking the medication. But in the Dartmouth study, this was not what happened. When given clearer information, the patients weighed the risks and benefits””

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Hope differs from optimism. Hope does not arise from being told to "think positively," or from hearing an overly rosy forecast. Hope, unlike optimism,…

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Hope is the elevating feeling we experience when we see - in the mind's eye - a path to a better future.

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“While it is a convenient construct to divide hope into a cognitive and an affective component, the two are tightly coupled. Feelings and emotions mold logical thinking and eliberate decision making...True hope, then, is not initiated and sustained by completely erasing the emotions, like fear and anxiety, that are often its greatest obstacles. An equilibrium needs to be established, integrating…

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There is an authentic biology of hope. Belief and expectation - the key elements of hope - can block pain by releasing the brain's…

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Hope, true hope, has proved as important as any medication I might prescribe or any procedure I might perform.

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True hope is cleareyed. It sees all the difficulties that exist and all the potential for failure, but through that carves a realistic path…

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“Despite education and knowledge and experience, when you are the patient--suffering, confused, and despairing--it is very, very hard to take matters into your own…

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“Hope is one of our central emotions, but we are often at a loss when asked to define it. Many of us confuse hope with optimism, a prevailing attitude that "things turn out for the best." But hope differs from optimism. Hope does not arise from being told to "Think Positively," or from hearing an overly rosy forecast. Hope, unlike…

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False hope can lead to intemperate choices and flawed decision making. True hope takes into account the real threats that exist and seeks to…

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“One of the difficulties I experienced in trying to learn about the biology of emotions was the definition of terms...How would [Prof. Richard Davidson], as an experimental psychologist, deconstruct [hope]? "I understand hope as an emotion made up of two parts: a cognitive part and an affective part. When we hope for something, we employ, to some degree, our cognition,…

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“also risks of taking statins. To be sure, seeing a person in front of you has a greater impact than hearing about side effects…

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