inspired the psychological term 'Pollyanna principle'
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The entity is a psychological concept describing the human tendency to focus on the positive and remember pleasant information more than unpleasant, named after the optimistic fictional character Pollyanna.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Pollyanna effect | 1 |
| inspired term "Pollyanna" for excessive optimism | 1 |
| inspired the psychological term 'Pollyanna principle' canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10781742 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: inspired the psychological term 'Pollyanna principle' Context triple: [Pollyanna, hasCulturalImpact, inspired the psychological term 'Pollyanna principle']
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pleasure principle
The pleasure principle is a psychoanalytic concept describing the instinctive drive of the mind to seek immediate gratification of desires and avoid pain, especially prominent in early childhood and in the id.
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PERMA model of well-being
The PERMA model of well-being is a psychological framework proposed by Martin Seligman that explains flourishing through five core elements: Positive Emotion, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, and Accomplishment.
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C.
positive psychology
Positive psychology is a branch of psychology that scientifically studies human strengths, well-being, and optimal functioning to understand and promote what makes life most worth living.
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D.
Learned Optimism
Learned Optimism is a popular psychology book by Martin Seligman that explains how adopting a more optimistic explanatory style can reduce depression, improve resilience, and enhance overall well-being.
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term "Martha Mitchell effect" in psychology
The "Martha Mitchell effect" in psychology refers to the misdiagnosis of a person's accurate but extraordinary-sounding claims as delusional, only later to be proven true.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: inspired the psychological term 'Pollyanna principle' Target entity description: The entity is a psychological concept describing the human tendency to focus on the positive and remember pleasant information more than unpleasant, named after the optimistic fictional character Pollyanna.
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A.
pleasure principle
The pleasure principle is a psychoanalytic concept describing the instinctive drive of the mind to seek immediate gratification of desires and avoid pain, especially prominent in early childhood and in the id.
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B.
PERMA model of well-being
The PERMA model of well-being is a psychological framework proposed by Martin Seligman that explains flourishing through five core elements: Positive Emotion, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, and Accomplishment.
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C.
positive psychology
Positive psychology is a branch of psychology that scientifically studies human strengths, well-being, and optimal functioning to understand and promote what makes life most worth living.
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D.
Learned Optimism
Learned Optimism is a popular psychology book by Martin Seligman that explains how adopting a more optimistic explanatory style can reduce depression, improve resilience, and enhance overall well-being.
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E.
term "Martha Mitchell effect" in psychology
The "Martha Mitchell effect" in psychology refers to the misdiagnosis of a person's accurate but extraordinary-sounding claims as delusional, only later to be proven true.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cognitive bias
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memory bias ⓘ psychological concept ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
interpretation of ambiguous information
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memory of past experiences ⓘ perception of events ⓘ |
| characteristicOf | human cognition ⓘ |
| contrastsWith | negativity bias ⓘ |
| describes |
human tendency to focus on positive information
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human tendency to remember pleasant information more than unpleasant information ⓘ optimistic bias in information processing ⓘ |
| field |
cognitive psychology
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positive psychology ⓘ psychology ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeLabel |
Pollyanna effect
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Pollyanna positivity bias ⓘ |
| hasConsequence |
distortion of autobiographical memory
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overly optimistic view of reality ⓘ systematic bias in judgment ⓘ |
| hasExample |
focusing on good outcomes while minimizing bad outcomes
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recalling positive childhood events more vividly than negative ones ⓘ remembering compliments more than criticisms ⓘ |
| hasNameOrigin | Pollyanna ⓘ |
| involves |
downplaying negative information
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preferential recall of positive events ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Pollyanna ⓘ |
| namedForTraitOf | Pollyanna's extreme optimism ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
emotional memory
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optimism bias ⓘ positivity bias ⓘ selective memory ⓘ |
| usedIn |
psychological research on memory
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research on affect and cognition ⓘ studies of well-being ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: inspired the psychological term 'Pollyanna principle' Description of subject: The entity is a psychological concept describing the human tendency to focus on the positive and remember pleasant information more than unpleasant, named after the optimistic fictional character Pollyanna.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
inspired the psychological term 'Pollyanna principle'
linked to: inspired the psychological term 'Pollyanna principle'
subject linked to:
the 'glad game'
linked to: inspired the psychological term 'Pollyanna principle'