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The $11 billion self-help industry is built on the idea that you should turn negative thoughts like “I never do anything right”(1)_________ positive ones like “I can succeed.” But was positive thinking advocate Norman Vincent Peale right? Is there power in positive thinking?
Researchers in Canada just published a study in the journal Psychological Science that says (2)_______(try) to get people to think more positively can actually have the opposite effect: it can simply highlight (3)_______ unhappy they are.
The study's authors, Joanne Wood and John Lee of the University of Waterloo and Elaine Perunovic of the University of New BrunswicK, begin by citing older research showing that when people get feedback (4)____________ they believe is overly positive, they actually feel worse, not better. If you tell your dim friend that he has the potential of an Einstein, you're just underlining his faults. In one 1990s experiment, a team including psychologist Joel Co