“To quantify the potential cost of hopelessness on electricity consumption, we regressed the preference of the ideal wattage for a ceiling fixture onto the hopelessness scale and found that it costs participants on average 20.6% more electricity to feel 1 point less hopeful toward the economy and career prospect.” – explain Ping Dong and Chen-Bo […]
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Helplessness, Hopelessness, and Haplessness
Lester’s Helplessness, Hopelessness, and Haplessness inventory is the leading inventory — it is the only inventory — for measuring not just helplessness, not just helplessness and hopelessness, but helplessness AND hopelessness AND haplessness. The prolific Professor Lester — he has authored or co-authored more than 2500 academic papers, most a page or two long — has […]