Journal article
Optimistic update bias holds firm: three tests of robustness following Shah et al.
- Abstract:
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A diverse body of research has demonstrated that people update their beliefs to a greater extent when receiving good news compared to bad news. Recently, a paper by Shah et al. claimed that this asymmetry does not exist. Here we carefully examine the experiments and simulations described in Shah et al. and follow their analytic approach on our data sets. After correcting for confounds we identify in the experiments of Shah et al., an optimistic update bias for positive life events is revealed...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Elsevier Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Consciousness and Cognition Journal website
- Volume:
- 50
- Pages:
- 12-22
- Publication date:
- 2016-11-09
- Acceptance date:
- 2016-10-26
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1090-2376
- ISSN:
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1053-8100
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- Language:
- English
- Pubs id:
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pubs:965953
- UUID:
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uuid:3d08d159-453a-4bb8-a7ce-f20694a258bc
- Local pid:
- pubs:965953
- Source identifiers:
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965953
- Deposit date:
- 2019-01-25
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- Copyright holder:
- Garrett and Sharot
- Copyright date:
- 2016
- Notes:
- © 2017 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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