ArticleCognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience2016
Trait "pessimism" is associated with increased sensitivity to negative feedback in rats.
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- Optimistic and pessimistic cognitive judgement bias modulates the stress response and cancer progression in zebrafish.Translational psychiatry · 2025Article
- Trait sensitivity to stress and cognitive bias processes in fish: A brief overview.Personality neuroscience · 2024Review
- Trait sensitivity to negative feedback in rats is associated with increased expression of serotonin 5-HTFrontiers in molecular neuroscience · 2023Article
- Trait sensitivity to negative feedback determines the effects of chronic stress and chronic mirtazapine treatment on anxiety and stress-coping strategies in rats.Psychopharmacology · 2022Article
- How Inhibitory Control Relates to Positive and Negative Affective States in Red Junglefowl.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2022Article
- Use of cognitive bias as a welfare tool in poultry.Journal of animal science · 2020Review
- Trait Sensitivity to Negative and Positive Feedback Does Not Interact With the Effects of Acute Antidepressant Treatment on Hedonic Status in Rats.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2020Article
- Insensitivity to Success and Failure: An Experimental Study of Performance-Based Feedback in Depression.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- Sensitivity to negative and positive feedback as a stable and enduring behavioural trait in rats.Psychopharmacology · 2019Article
- Assessing animal affect: an automated and self-initiated judgement bias task based on natural investigative behaviour.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Pessimism and fearfulness in dairy calves.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Trait sensitivity to negative feedback determines the intensity of compulsive alcohol seeking and taking in male rats.Journal of psychiatry & neuroscience : JPNArticle
- Optimism, sleep quality, physical activity, and cancer-related cognitive impairment in middle-to-older aged patients undergoing breast cancer treatment.International journal of clinical and health psychology : IJCHPArticle
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Abstract
Several cognitive theories of depression have proposed that cognitive judgment bias determines individual vulnerability to this disorder. Indeed, we have recently demonstrated a relationship between pessimistic judgment bias and vulnerability of rats to the stress-induced anhedonia, and a negative correlation between the level of pessimism and motivation. To further characterize the effects of trait pessimism on cognitive processes associated with depression, in the present study we compared the sensitivity of rats displaying optimistic and pessimistic traits to positive and negative feedback. The animals were initially trained and tested in the rat version of the probabilistic reversal-learning (PRL) task, which allowed for the assessment of feedback sensitivity in individual animals. Subsequently, the rats were re-trained and tested in a series of ambiguous-cue interpretation (ACI) tests, which allowed for the classification of animals displaying "optimistic" and "pessimistic" traits. The "pessimistic" rats were significantly more sensitive to negative feedback than their "optimistic" conspecifics, as indicated by an increased proportion of lose-shift behaviors. The results of our study demonstrate the interrelation and co-existence of two cognitive biases that may predict vulnerability to depressive disorder.
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