ArticleRoyal Society open science2022
Is depression associated with reduced optimistic belief updating?
Article in Royal Society open science, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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- How mood shapes belief updating bias in depression.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2025Review
- Right Frontal Gamma Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation Modulates Optimism Biases.Neuroscience bulletin · 2025Article
- An Active Inference Model of the Optimism Bias.Computational psychiatry (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
- A rodent model of enhanced anticipation of positive events: sex-specific modifications in cognitive bias and emotional resilience.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2025Article
- Psilocybin increases optimistic engagement over time: computational modelling of behaviour in rats.Translational psychiatry · 2024Article
- Neurobiology and systems biology of stress resilience.Physiological reviews · 2024Review
- Depression Accompanied by Hopelessness Is Associated with More Negative Future Thinking.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
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- Changes in retirement plans in the English older population during the COVID-19 pandemic: The roles of health factors and financial insecurity.European journal of ageing · 2023Article
- The mediation role of psychological capital between family relationship and antenatal depressive symptoms among women with advanced maternal age: a cross sectional study.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2022Article
- Is depression associated with reduced optimistic belief updating?Royal Society open science · 2022Article
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Abstract
When asked to evaluate their probability of experiencing a negative life event, healthy individuals update their beliefs more following good news than bad. This is referred to as optimistic belief updating. By contrast, individuals with depression update their beliefs by a similar amount, showing reduced optimism. We conducted the first independent replication of this effect and extended this work to examine whether reduced optimistic belief updating in depression also occurs for positive life events. Replicating previous research, healthy and depression groups differed in belief updating for negative events (
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