One way or the other, the power of the positive word was positive results. On a far more vast scale, John F. Kennedy knew this as well as anyone in modern history – and he displayed it every day.

However, when you add the word “yet” after one of these negative statements, it transforms it into a more positive one: “I don’t have my dream job” becomes “I don’t have my dream job ...

Lomas's paper is entitled “Towards a Positive Cross-Cultural Lexicography: Enriching Our Emotional Landscape through 216 ‘Untranslatable’ Words Pertaining to Well-Being.” ...

Four years ago, voters’ descriptions of Barack Obama focused on his newness on the political scene. In September 2008, more voters used the word inexperienced to describe Obama than any other word, ...