Which Researcher(s) Would Define Optimism as the Stable Tendency to Believe

question 38

Multiple Choice

Which researcher(s) would define optimism as the stable tendency to believe that good rather than bad things will happen?

• A) Diener
• B) Carver and Scheier
• C) Snyder
• D) Seligman and Clark

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Definitions:

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