Manipulating optimism: Can imagining a best possible self be used to increase positive future expectancies?

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Stress and Subjective Well-Being Among First Year UK Undergraduate Students (2016, unknown): “interventions to promote optimistic thinking in students and decrease negative affect (Peters et al. 2010; Shapira and Mongrain 2010).”
Do brands make consumers happy?- A masstige theory perspective (2021, background): “A happy customer may not only tend to evaluate everything around him positively but thinking positive and being in a positive mood may also favorably impact future experiences (Peters et al., 2010) and decisions (Labroo and Patrick, 2009).”
Positive psychology interventions: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled studies (2013, unknown): “Half of the studies, 19 in total, recruited the subjects (not necessarily students) through university [29,32,34,51,56,5861,64-68,70,72,75,80,85].”
What Is the Optimal Way to Deliver a Positive Activity Intervention? The Case of Writing About One’s Best Possible Selves (2012, methodology): “2005), or writing about one’s best possible self (Boehm et al. 2011a; King 2001; Lyubomirsky et al. 2011; Peters et al. 2010; Sheldon and Lyubomirsky 2006) can increase well-being.”
The origins and nature of compassion focused therapy. (2014, background): “For example, practising imagining one’s ‘best possible self’ and relating to difﬁculties from that sense of self is related to increased optimism and improved coping (Meevissen, Peters, & Alberts, 2011; Peters, Flink, Boersma, & Linton, 2010).”