People tend to remain overly optimistic even when faced with information about a gloomy future. A study now shows that people are selectively worse at incorporating information about a worse-than-expected future. It also describes the learning signals in the brain that correlate with this bias
International audienceRecent research suggested a link between the prediction mechanism and depressi...
Recent evidence suggests that a state of good mental health is associated with biased processing of ...
Optimism bias and positive attention bias are important features of healthy information processing. ...
People tend to remain overly optimistic even when faced with information about a gloomy future. A st...
SummaryThe ability to anticipate is a hallmark of cognition. Inferences about what will occur in the...
Received academic wisdom holds that human judgment is characterized by unrealistic optimism, the ten...
Optimism bias describes people’s tendency to overestimate their likelihood to experience positive ev...
When forming and updating beliefs about future life outcomes, people tend to consider good news and ...
The optimism bias is a well-established psychological phenomenon. Its study has implications that ar...
Optimism refers to peoples’ general tendency to anticipate good outcomes in areas that are important...
<div><p>Optimism bias and positive attention bias have important highly similar implications for men...
Optimism bias and positive attention bias have important highly similar implications for mental heal...
People are motivated to adopt the most favorable beliefs about their future because positive beliefs...
Optimism bias, i.e. expecting the future to hold more desirable than undesirable outcomes, also exte...
Individuals often anticipate an unrealistically favorable future for themselves (personal optimism b...
International audienceRecent research suggested a link between the prediction mechanism and depressi...
Recent evidence suggests that a state of good mental health is associated with biased processing of ...
Optimism bias and positive attention bias are important features of healthy information processing. ...
People tend to remain overly optimistic even when faced with information about a gloomy future. A st...
SummaryThe ability to anticipate is a hallmark of cognition. Inferences about what will occur in the...
Received academic wisdom holds that human judgment is characterized by unrealistic optimism, the ten...
Optimism bias describes people’s tendency to overestimate their likelihood to experience positive ev...
When forming and updating beliefs about future life outcomes, people tend to consider good news and ...
The optimism bias is a well-established psychological phenomenon. Its study has implications that ar...
Optimism refers to peoples’ general tendency to anticipate good outcomes in areas that are important...
<div><p>Optimism bias and positive attention bias have important highly similar implications for men...
Optimism bias and positive attention bias have important highly similar implications for mental heal...
People are motivated to adopt the most favorable beliefs about their future because positive beliefs...
Optimism bias, i.e. expecting the future to hold more desirable than undesirable outcomes, also exte...
Individuals often anticipate an unrealistically favorable future for themselves (personal optimism b...
International audienceRecent research suggested a link between the prediction mechanism and depressi...
Recent evidence suggests that a state of good mental health is associated with biased processing of ...
Optimism bias and positive attention bias are important features of healthy information processing. ...