Other simple experiments and surveys tested other traits such as the propensity for taking risks, competitiveness, optimism and pessimism.
Though there were big changes in bullish and bearish sentiment, both optimism and pessimism are close to their historical averages.
This is particularly the case when using our survey to gauge market direction based on the level of optimism and pessimism.
Not surprisingly, independents were split between optimism and pessimism 47% to 47%.
Too often people are prone to recurring bouts of optimism and pessimism that manifest themselves from time to time in the build-up or cessation of speculative excesses.
Here the answer contains reasons for both optimism and pessimism.
Its economic sentiment index for the eurozone rose to 89.2 from 87.8 in December, still well below the 100 level that marks the boundary between overall optimism and pessimism.
In Fedville, speeches create optimism and promote pessimism at the same time.
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" Gore got the better of the feisty Texan, saying it was "a choice between pessimism and optimism...
The chequered performance of the NHS over the past decade is cause for both pessimism and optimism in the frostier financial climate ahead.
They are lives of complications, of heartbreak and pessimism but of love and optimism.
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His 1922 book The Trade Cycle described the "tendency for confidence to pass into errors of optimism or pessimism, " which triggers booms and busts.
Throughout the history of the survey, we have seen the spread rise above 40 (high levels of optimism) and fall below -30 (high levels of pessimism).
Optimism is breaking out across the land after pessimism hit an extreme in early March, and you need not look far to find stocks that have been superstars of late.
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