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Mood fluctuations shift cost–benefit tradeoffs in economic decisions

Scientific Reports, 2023
Mood effects on economic choice seem blatantly irrational, but might rise from mechanisms adapted to natural environments. We have proposed a theory in which mood helps adapting the behaviour to statistical dependencies in the environment, by biasing the
Roeland Heerema, Pablo Carrillo, Jean Daunizeau, Fabien Vinckier, Mathias Pessiglione   +4 more
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Medial prefrontal cortex and anteromedial thalamus interaction regulates goal-directed behavior and dopaminergic neuron activity

Nature Communications, 2022
The prefrontal cortex is involved in goal-directed behaviour. Here the authors show that medial prefrontal cortex activates goal-directed motivation and dopamine neurons via a feedback loop with the anteromedial thalamus.
Chen Yang, Yuzheng Hu, Aleksandr D. Talishinsky, Christian T. Potter, Coleman B. Calva, Leslie A. Ramsey, Andrew J. Kesner, Reuben F. Don, Sue Junn, Aaron Tan, Anne F. Pierce, Céline Nicolas, Yosuke Arima, Seung-Chan Lee, Conghui Su, Jensine M. Coudriet, Carlos A. Mejia-Aponte, Dong V. Wang, Hanbing Lu, Yihong Yang, Satoshi Ikemoto   +20 more
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The acceptability of evidence-informed guidance for parents in talking to their children about weight

BMC Public Health, 2023
Background Many parents express concern about the impact of talking to children about weight on their self-esteem and wellbeing. The aim of this study was to explore the perceived relevance, utility and acceptability of new guidance for parents on ...
Fran Baber, Fiona B Gillison, Elisabeth B Grey   +2 more
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A computational account of why more valuable goals seem to require more effortful actions

eLife, 2022
To decide whether a course of action is worth pursuing, individuals typically weigh its expected costs and benefits. Optimal decision-making relies upon accurate effort cost anticipation, which is generally assumed to be performed independently from goal
Emmanuelle Bioud, Corentin Tasu, Mathias Pessiglione   +2 more
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A growing concern for meaning: Exploring the links between ego development and eudaimonia

Frontiers in Psychology, 2023
IntroductionEudaimonia, in contrast to hedonia, is theorized to be a more complex type of positive functioning that involves personal growth and is guided by the pursuit of meaning.
Evgeny N. Osin, Evgeny N. Osin, Elena Yu. Voevodina, Vasily Yu. Kostenko   +3 more
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Meaning of life as a resource for coping with psychological crisis: Comparisons of suicidal and non-suicidal patients

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
IntroductionMeaning is an important psychological resource both in situations of accomplishment and in situations of ongoing adversity and psychological crisis.
Olga Kalashnikova, Dmitry Leontiev, Elena Rasskazova, Olga Taranenko   +3 more
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Effects of Informative and Confirmatory Feedback on Brain Activation During Negative Feedback Processing

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2015
The current study compared the effects of informative and confirmatory feedback on brain activation during negative feedback processing. For confirmatory feedback trials, participants were informed that they had failed the task, whereas informative ...
Yeon-Kyoung eWoo, Juyeon eSong, Yi eJiang, Catherine eCho, Mimi eBong, Sung-il eKim   +5 more
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A neuro-computational account of procrastination behavior

Nature Communications, 2022
Most humans procrastinate to some extent, despite adverse consequences. Here, the authors show that how much an individual procrastinates, both in the lab and at home, relates to brain signals that reflect temporal discounting of effort cost.
Le Bouc Raphaël, Pessiglione Mathias
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The home electronic media environment and parental safety concerns: relationships with outdoor time after school and over the weekend among 9–11 year old children

BMC Public Health, 2018
Background Time spent outdoors is associated with higher physical activity levels among children, yet it may be threatened by parental safety concerns and the attraction of indoor sedentary pursuits.
Hannah J. Wilkie, Martyn Standage, Fiona B. Gillison, Sean P. Cumming, Peter T. Katzmarzyk   +4 more
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Acute aerobic exercise and attentional focus influence the self-positivity bias in emotional evaluation. Evidence from an experimental study

Open Psychology, 2022
The influence of aerobic exercise, as a possibly mood-enhancing experience, was investigated for its effect on emotional evaluation of self- vs. other-related emotional (e.g., my/his joy) or neutral (e.g., my/his notes) stimuli.
Meixner Friedrich, Herbert Cornelia
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