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Losing the rose tinted glasses: neural substrates of unbiased belief updating in depression
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2014 Recent evidence suggests that a state of good mental health is associated with biased processing of information that supports a positively skewed view of the future.
Neil eGarrett +5 more
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Risk attitude, beliefs updating and the information content of trades: an experiment [PDF]
In this paper, the authors conduct a series of experiments that simulate trading in financial markets and which allows them to identify the different effects that subjects’ risk attitudes and belief updating rules have on the information content of the ...
Bisière, Christophe +2 more
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Environmental Governance as Stochastic Belief Updating: Crafting Rules to Live by
Ecology and Society, 2012 The idea that humans can "manage" nature is a modernist conceit. Natural systems and social (human) systems are always in the process of becoming. In this setting of unknowable dynamic emergence, it is not possible to design institutional arrangements ...
Daniel W. Bromley
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Evidence Propagation and Consensus Formation in Noisy Environments
, 2019 We study the effectiveness of consensus formation in multi-agent systems where there is both belief updating based on direct evidence and also belief combination between agents.
A Jøsang +18 more
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The effect of induced optimism on the optimistic update bias
BMC Psychology, 2020 Background Individuals tend to have an optimism bias, processing desirable information more frequently than undesirable information. However, people who have been diagnosed with depression often have a more pessimistic view of the future.
Shinpei Yoshimura, Yuma Hashimoto
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A pessimistic view of optimistic belief updating [PDF]
Cognitive Psychology, 2016 Received academic wisdom holds that human judgment is characterized by unrealistic optimism, the tendency to underestimate the likelihood of negative events and overestimate the likelihood of positive events. With recent questions being raised over the degree to which the majority of this research genuinely demonstrates optimism, attention to possible ...
Shah, P +4 more
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The pediatric hematology‐oncology fellowship training curriculum has not substantially changed since its inception. The first year of training is clinically focused, and the second and third years are devoted to scholarship. However, this current structure leaves many fellows less competitive in the current job market, resulting in ...
Scott C. Borinstein +3 more
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Royal Society Open Science, 2022 The unchecked spread of misinformation is recognized as an increasing threat to public, scientific and democratic health. Online networks are a contributing cause of this spread, with echo chambers and polarization indicative of the interplay between the
Toby D. Pilditch +3 more
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Updating Beliefs with Imperfect Signals: Experimental Evidence [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010 We conduct an experiment on individual choice under risk in which we study belief updating when an agent receives a signal that restricts the number of possible states of the world. Subjects observe a sample drawn from an urn and form initial beliefs about the urn’s composition.
Poinas, François +2 more
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Surveillance imaging aims to detect tumour relapse before symptoms develop, but it's unclear whether earlier detection of relapse leads to better outcomes in children and young people (CYP) with medulloblastoma and ependymoma. This systematic review aims to identify relevant literature to determine the efficacy of surveillance magnetic ...
Lucy Shepherd +3 more
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