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Posttraumatic Growth and Resilience: Their Distinctive Relationships with Optimism and Pessimism [PDF]

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences
Posttraumatic growth (PTG) and resilience should have distinct features due to their theoretical background, and yet their respective relationships with optimism have been consistently positive.
Kanako Taku, Amber Efthemiou
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Hyperspectral Classification Using Deep Belief Networks Based on Conjugate Gradient Update and Pixel-Centric Spectral Block Features

open access: yesIEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 2020
This article describes the use of deep belief networks (DBNs) based on the conjugate gradient (CG) update algorithm for hyperspectral classification. DBNs perform two processes: unsupervised pretraining and supervised fine-tuning.
Chen Chen, Yi Ma, Guangbo Ren
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Fourteen- to Eighteen-Month-Old Infants Use Explicit Linguistic Information to Update an Agent’s False Belief

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2019
The current research examined how infants exploit linguistic information to update an agent’s false belief about an object’s location. Fourteen- to eighteen-month-old infants first watched a series of events involving two agents, a ball, and two ...
Kyong-Sun Jin   +7 more
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Belief Change without Compactness

open access: yesCLEI Electronic Journal, 2021
Dealing with dynamics is a vital problem in Artificial Intelligence (AI). An intelligent system should be able to perceive and interact with its environment to perform its tasks satisfactorily.
Jandson S Ribeiro
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A Reduced Self-Positive Belief Underpins Greater Sensitivity to Negative Evaluation in Socially Anxious Individuals

open access: yesComputational Psychiatry, 2021
Positive self-beliefs are important for well-being, and are influenced by how others evaluate us during social interactions. Mechanistic accounts of self-beliefs have mostly relied on associative learning models.
Alexandra K. Hopkins   +3 more
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Asymmetrical Update of Beliefs About Future Outcomes is Driven by Outcome Valence and Social Group Membership

open access: yesInternational Review of Social Psychology, 2023
People are eager to update their beliefs, such as a perceived risk, if they receive information that is better than expected but are reluctant to do so when the evidence is unfavourable.
Mihai Dricu   +3 more
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A guideline and cautionary Note: How to use the belief update task correctly

open access: yesMethods in Psychology, 2022
The belief update task has been used by many scientists to test a wide range of questions related to belief formation and optimism. Most of these studies are rigorous and well conducted.
Tali Sharot, Neil Garrett
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Is depression associated with reduced optimistic belief updating?

open access: yesRoyal Society Open Science, 2022
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
Catherine Hobbs   +4 more
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An interpretation of focal point responses as non-additive beliefs [PDF]

open access: yesJudgment and Decision Making, 2014
This paper provides a novel interpretation of focal point responses (0, 50, 100 percent) in terms of ambiguous beliefs dynamics that arise in new developments of decision theory such as Choquet expected utility theory.
Aylit Tina Romm
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Risk attitude and belief updating: theory and experiment

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2023
Despite the importance of risk attitude in decision-making, its role in belief updating has been overlooked. Using economic theory, we analyzed a dual-self equilibrium where an individual first updates her belief about an uncertain state and then takes ...
Evelyn Y. H. Huang, Benson Tsz Kin Leung
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