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“When exposed to posi tive events, healthy individuals typically make the previous negative events irrelevant (Garrett and Sharot, 2017; Sharot, 2011).”
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“Humans form and update their beliefs in an optimistic manner, i.e., people update desirable (better than expected) news into their beliefs but discount or ignore undesirable (worse than expected) news (2, 19, 21).”
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- Authors
- Sharot, T.
- Affiliations
- University College London (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Sharot, Tali
- ORCID
- Sharot, Tali
- Venue
- Current Biology
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2011-12
- Volume
- 21
- Issue
- 23
- Pages
- R941-R945
- ISSN
- 0960-9822 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W4232964083
- Cited by
- 1,187
- References
- 10
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- FWCI
- 10.74
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Current Biology (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › General Decision Sciences › Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Optimism, Hope, and Well-being
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Keywords
- optimism bias, future expectations, overconfidence, self-projection, cognitive biases, decision-making, behavioral economics
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