Gabriele Oettingen is a Professor of Psychology at New York University and at the University of Hamburg. She is the author of more than a 100 articles and book chapters on thinking about the future and the control of cognition, emotion, and behavior. Her research has led her to conclude that if we really want to change ourselves, to make meaningful positive change, we can'r rely on positive thinking alone.
Her research suggests that people who put energy into visualizing "positive dreams have the same consequences that people who put in low effort have, and they experience low success. Over time they experience low wellbeing, low mental health, low physical health and low personal development."
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