In 1994, The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology published a paper called The self-comparison process and self-discrepant feedback: consequences of learning you are what you thought you were not showing that when people get feedback that they believe is overly positive, they actually feel worse, not better. | |
In 2009, a study called Positive Self-Statements: Power for some, peril for others" published in the journal Psychological Science says trying to get people to think more positively can actually have the opposite effect. Click here for Time Magazine's summary. |