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Publisher Summary The chapter provides an insight on those stages of life where one tends to lose hope in life. Such a stage is encountered by almost everybody and this mental apathy can last for only a few hours or as long as a lifetime. The chapter explores why this prolonged apathy happen only to some people and not to others, and why some people feel temporarily hopeless only to bounce back full of energy and creative ideas, ready to find other avenues for achieving their goals, while others seem to give up immediately. The chapter begins by exploring differing behaviors of low- and high-hope individuals as well as the stages or events that cause an individual slowly to lose hope. It also considers how goal-directed thinking in children develops and thereafter explores how such hope is undermined by particular childhood events or processes. Finally, it discusses the psychological consequences of hopeless thinking throughout adulthood, along with environmental forces associated with the death of hope. |
