Optimist: "the cup is half full"
Pessimist: "the cup is half empty"
Social & personality psychologist: “We developed the one-item CUP optimism scale and plotted it against the Big Five, with 300 UG students participating for course credit. Our results are generalisable to all people, everywhere.”
Pessimist: "the cup is half empty"
Social & personality psychologist: “We developed the one-item CUP optimism scale and plotted it against the Big Five, with 300 UG students participating for course credit. Our results are generalisable to all people, everywhere.”
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Elizabeth Stokoe
Optimist: "the cup is half full"
Pessimist: "the cup is half empty"
Conversation analyst: the action accomplished by the turn in which either phrase is formulated, its sequential position, & its accompanying embodied conduct, will determine whether I want to spend more time with you :-)
#EMCA
Pessimist: "the cup is half empty"
Conversation analyst: the action accomplished by the turn in which either phrase is formulated, its sequential position, & its accompanying embodied conduct, will determine whether I want to spend more time with you :-)
#EMCA
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