Kermit Pattison is a journalist and author of Fossil Men: The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind. Learn and share the most exciting discoveries, innovations and ideas shaping ...

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Matej Lipar is Adjunct Research Fellow in Curtin University’s School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, and head of the ...

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Kristin Scott is a professor of management at Clemson University. She studies employee resilience, organizational leadership ...

Our study found that hope worked in part by increasing positive emotions, which in turn boosted resilience. That means that ...

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