Everything about Positive

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: PositiveA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Targeting HER2-positive breast cancer: advances and future directionsInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: The Magic of Thinking BigThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Development and validation of brief measures of positive and negative affect: The PANAS scales.Cited 31,862 times
5. Go sideways: NegativeA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Affirmation and negationA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Development and validation of brief measures of positive and negative affect: The PANAS scales.

  David Watson, Lee Anna Clark, Auke Tellegen · 1988 · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 31,862 citations

• The Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) for Schizophrenia

  S. R. Kay, A. Fiszbein, L. A. Opler · 1987 · Schizophrenia Bulletin · 18,387 citations

• A Simple, Positive Semi-Definite, Heteroskedasticity and Autocorrelation Consistent Covariance Matrix

  Whitney K. Newey, Kenneth D. West · 1987 · Econometrica · 16,056 citations

• The role of positive emotions in positive psychology: The broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions.

  Barbara L. Fredrickson · 2001 · American Psychologist · 12,493 citations

• Positive psychology: An introduction.

  Martin E. P. Seligman, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi · 2000 · American Psychologist · 10,208 citations

• Pembrolizumab versus Chemotherapy for PD-L1–Positive Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer

  Martin Reck, Delvys Rodríguez-Abreu, Andrew G. Robinson · 2016 · New England Journal of Medicine · 8,957 citations

• Phospho‐olivines as Positive‐Electrode Materials for Rechargeable Lithium Batteries

  A. K. Padhi, K. S. Nanjundaswamy, J. B. Goodenough · 1997 · Journal of The Electrochemical Society · 7,678 citations

• The posttraumatic growth inventory: Measuring the positive legacy of trauma

  Richard G. Tedeschi, Lawrence G. Calhoun · 1996 · Journal of Traumatic Stress · 6,709 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Targeting HER2-positive breast cancer: advances and future directions

  Sandra M. Swain, Mythili Shastry, Erika Hamilton · 2022 · Nature Reviews Drug Discovery · 1,157 citations

• Zolbetuximab plus mFOLFOX6 in patients with CLDN18.2-positive, HER2-negative, untreated, locally advanced unresectable or metastatic gastric or gastro-oesophageal junction adenocarcinoma (SPOTLIGHT): a multicentre, randomised, double-blind, phase 3 trial

  Kohei Shitara, Florian Lordick, Yung-Jue Bang · 2023 · The Lancet · 889 citations

• Capivasertib in Hormone Receptor–Positive Advanced Breast Cancer

  Nicholas C. Turner, Mafalda Oliveira, Sacha J. Howell · 2023 · New England Journal of Medicine · 853 citations

• Positive feedback regulation of microglial glucose metabolism by histone H4 lysine 12 lactylation in Alzheimer’s disease

  Rui-Yuan Pan, Lin He, Jing Zhang · 2022 · Cell Metabolism · 850 citations

• Elacestrant (oral selective estrogen receptor degrader) Versus Standard Endocrine Therapy for Estrogen Receptor–Positive, Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor 2–Negative Advanced Breast Cancer: Results From the Randomized Phase III EMERALD Trial

  Francois-Clement Bidard, Virginia G. Kaklamani, Patrick Neven · 2022 · Journal of Clinical Oncology · 765 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• The Magic of Thinking BigDavid Joseph Schwartz · 1900
• What color is your parachute?Richard Nelson Bolles · 1979
• 12 Rules for LifeJordan B. Peterson · 2015
• The SecretRhonda Byrne · 2000
• The antidoteOliver Burkeman, Martín Rodríguez-Courel Ginzo · 2012
• PositioningAl Ries, Jack Trout · 1981
• Merrill's atlas of radiographic positions and radiologic proceduresPhilip W. Ballinger · 1986
• Applied positive psychologyStewart I. Donaldson, Jeanne Nakamura · 2011

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

🔗 Related topics

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