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The brain's rose-colored glasses

The brain's rose-colored glasses
The brain's rose-colored glasses
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.
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Izuma, Keise
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Adolphs, Ralph
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Izuma, Keise
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Adolphs, Ralph
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Izuma, Keise and Adolphs, Ralph (2011) The brain's rose-colored glasses. Nature Neuroscience, 14 (11), 1355-1356. (doi:10.1038/nn.2960).

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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.

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e-pub ahead of print date: 26 October 2011
Published date: November 2011

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Local EPrints ID: 425210
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/425210
ISSN: 1097-6256
PURE UUID: 6329bd30-abf0-4a01-885e-96106a2e0c6f

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Date deposited: 11 Oct 2018 16:30
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 22:04

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Author: Keise Izuma
Author: Ralph Adolphs

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