Dricu, Mihai; Kress, Laura; Aue, Tatjana (2020). The neurophysiological basis of optimism bias. In: Aue, Tatjana; Okon-Singer, Hadas (eds.) Cognitive biases in health and psychiatric disorders: Neurophysiological foundations (pp. 41-70). San Diego, CA: Elsevier 10.1016/B978-0-12-816660-4.00003-9
Full text not available from this repository. (Request a copy)Optimism bias describes people’s tendency to overestimate their likelihood of experiencing positive events and underestimate their likelihood of experiencing negative events in the future. The present chapter provides the necessary theoretical background to understand the various facets of optimism bias (section “Introduction”) and depicts multiple motivational and cognitive underpinnings of the bias (section “Major theories in the field”). Following a short primer on the methods used to investigate optimism bias (section “Methods used to investigate the optimism bias”), the empirical evidence is laid out from structural and functional neuroimaging studies (section “Brain regions involved in the emergence and maintenance of the bias”) and psychophysiology studies (section “Somatovisceral responses related to optimism bias”). Differences in optimism bias in clinical populations with respect to the healthy mind are also described (section “Similarities and differences between healthy and clinical populations”). The chapter concludes with the challenges faced within the field (section “Limitations”) and the areas that future research can explore (section “Future directions”).
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Book Section (Book Chapter) |
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07 Faculty of Human Sciences > Institute of Psychology > Psychological and Behavioral Health 07 Faculty of Human Sciences > Institute of Psychology > Weitere Forschungsgruppen |
UniBE Contributor: |
Dricu, Mihai, Kress, Laura, Aue, Tatjana |
Subjects: |
100 Philosophy > 150 Psychology 600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health |
ISBN: |
978-0-12-816660-4 |
Publisher: |
Elsevier |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Tatjana Aue Seil |
Date Deposited: |
04 May 2020 11:07 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 15:38 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1016/B978-0-12-816660-4.00003-9 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: |
optimism bias, comparative optimism, updating, belief bias, positive expectancies, neuroimaging, psychophysiology, psychopathology |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/143464 |
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