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The mystery of the Polish soul. B. W. Johnson's effect à rebours

✍ Scribed by DARIUSZ DOLINSKI

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1996
Tongue
English
Weight
244 KB
Volume
26
Category
Article
ISSN
0046-2772

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✦ Synopsis

Studies conducted in Poland replicated a not very-well known effect discovered by B. W.

Johnson (1937). In his study students estimated their mood on several successive days each time comparing it to the mood they usually have. The results revealed a peculiar positive bias in that the students usually defined their mood as 'better than usual'. Johnson's study was replicated in Poland, where demonstration of optimism is not a cultural norm. The results suggest that Polish subjects 'usually define their mood as worse than usual'. The generalization and limitation of this negative bias is discussed in the light of the Pollyanna Principle and related empirical studies involving Polish subjects.

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