Psychology, emotion, specific, hope.  ---  .This section is about hope.  Topics include: ( ) Wishes and dreams.  ( ) Expectations.  ---  1/24/2006

Psychology, emotion, specific, hope.  ---  (1) Best hopes: subjectively believed, objectively actual.  (2) Worst hopes: subjective vs. objective.  (3) Accurate vs. inaccurate.  Suboptimal vs. unhealthy.  ---  12/30/1992

Psychology, emotion, specific, hope.  ---  (1) Hopes.  What you want to happen, and that actually could happen.  (2) Expectations.  What you think will happen.  (3) It is tough to tell what could or will actually happen.  So you come to the difference between hopes as best imaginable ideals vs. hopes as going with the odds of actual occurrence.  ---  09/23/1993

Psychology, emotion, specific, hope.  ---  (1) We live in hope.  Hope for the future.  The alternative to hope is despair.  There is always hope.  Hope is a must have.  (2) A hope words poem:  Reprieve.  Last minute pardon.  Rescue.  Airlift me out of here.  Beam me up.  Winning lottery ticket.  Miracle cure.  Free pass.  One millionth customer.  Lucky break.  Against all odds.  Liberation.  ---  3/25/2000

Psychology, emotion, specific, hope.  ---  (1) What is hope?  What is a definition of hope?  (2) What are the types of hope.  (3) What is relation of hope to other psychological phenomena?  ---  5/28/2005

Psychology, emotion, specific, hope.  ---  (1)(A) Hope and optimism go together.  If you are hopeful you are optimistic.  (B) Hopelessness and pessimism go together.  If you lack hope you are pessimistic.  (2) Hope is not an "all or none" proposition.  Hope is had by degree.  Hope is a spectrum.  (3) What are the things we hope for?  We hope circumstances will change, and that bad times will give way to good times.  We hope the odds will go in our favor; we hope the chips will fall our way.  (4) To be able to make hope statements.  To be able to say, "I hope that", or "I hope to" is an important ability.  Don't let the defeats of life crush your hopes.  ---  6/15/2004

Psychology, emotion, specific, hope.  ---  Gather your shreds of hope.  Weave your shreds of hope.  Cling to your shreds of hope.  Its all you have.  ---  7/10/2001

Psychology, emotion, specific, hope.  ---  Hope is like a lottery ticket.  Something good could be coming your way.  Even though bad stuff is too, and life is mostly decay.  ---  12/06/1988

Psychology, emotion, specific, hope.  ---  Hope is related to optimism.  Optimists have feelings of hope.  ---  5/6/2002

Psychology, emotion, specific, hope.  ---  Hope is someone with potential and desire waiting for the right opportunity.  ---  08/20/1994

Psychology, emotion, specific, hope.  ---  Hope, two types.  (1) Hope I can accomplish x task.  (2) Hope life throws y situation my way.  ---  4/10/2001

Psychology, emotion, specific, hope.  ---  Hope.  (1) Expectations: future thoughts and their emotions.  (2) Expectations: reasonable vs. too high vs. too low.  (3) Hope for improvement, or just to avoid decay.  ---  12/30/1992

Psychology, emotion, specific, hope.  ---  Hoping for no bad luck vs. hoping for good luck.  Hope is related to chance, possibility, and probability.  When you don't know the probabilities you hope anyway.  ---  03/30/1993

Psychology, emotion, specific, hope.  ---  Most important ideas.  (1) Optimists have hope.  (2) Hope keeps you alive.  (3) Hope is a must have.  ---  5/30/1998

Psychology, emotion, specific, hope.  ---  Short term vs. long term hopes.  Momentary vs. persisting hopes.  ---  12/30/1992

Psychology, emotion, specific, hope.  ---  The things you hope for self, others, and world is a sum reflection of the accuracy of your perception of reality, and your attitudes.  It is an emotion, derived from thoughts, that affects your motivation.  ---  12/30/1992

Psychology, emotion, specific, hope.  ---  Types of hope.  (1) Hoping to get what you deserve.  Hoping to get what you worked for.  (2) Hoping to get the average or the usual.  Hoping to get what everyone else has.  (3) Hoping to get a lucky break.  Hoping to beat high odds.  ---  11/20/2001

Psychology, emotion, specific, hope.  ---  What area.  (1) What you think is possible, and why.  (2) What you think probabilities are.  (A) What you think could happen to you if things don't change that much vs. if things change greatly.  (B) What you think you could affect or change.  (C) What you think could happen if a combonation of above.  (3) What you think is not possible and why.  ---  12/30/1992

Psychology, emotion, specific, hope.  ---  What you think could happen.  What you think you could be, become, do, get.  What you believe the probabilities are.  ---  12/30/1992

Psychology, emotion, specific, hope.  ---  Wishes, wants, dreams, desires (see psychology, drive).  ---  12/30/1992

Psychology, emotion, specific, hope.  ---  Your attitudes about fate, destiny, fortune, luck vs. the power and rules of the system (i.e. lack of freedom) vs. freedom of the individual.  Self effort and achievement affect your actions.  ---  12/30/1992