Pollyanna principle

This subconscious bias towards the positive is often described as the Pollyanna principle.

I can take it, but you--you hang on to your Pollyanna principles, sweetheart.

This article is about the book "The Pollyanna Principles" and an exploration of its concepts.

It is known that people prefer pleasant thoughts over unpleasant ones in a number of ways: this is called the "Pollyanna principle".

The "Pollyanna principle" means people say yes to positive statements (For example, instead of "What do you think of green?"

The Pollyanna principle (also called Pollyannaism or positive bias) is the tendency for people to agree with positive statements describing them.

This examination provides the framework for Community Impact Planning, also discussed within the Pollyanna Principles.

The "IBM Pollyanna principle" is a psychological principle which portrays the positive bias people have when thinking of the past.

One of the principal issues discussed in the "Pollyanna Principles" is notion of board accountability on the means versus the ends (discussed below).

The Pollyanna Principles is a book by author Hildy Gottlieb, centered around community benefit organizations and the processes that make them genuinely beneficial to the community.

The book also contains methods which Gottlieb refers to as the titular Pollyanna Principles, divided into two sections: The Ends and The Means.

The novel's success brought the "Pollyanna principle" (along with the adjective "Pollyannaish" and the noun "Pollyannaism") into the language to describe someone who seems always to be able to find something to be "glad" about no matter what circumstances arise.