2018
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0193311
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Seeing through rose-colored glasses: How optimistic expectancies guide visual attention

Abstract: Optimism bias and positive attention bias have important highly similar implications for mental health but have only been examined in isolation. Investigating the causal relationships between these biases can improve the understanding of their underlying cognitive mechanisms, leading to new directions in neurocognitive research and revealing important information about normal functioning as well as the development, maintenance, and treatment of psychological diseases. In the current project, we hypothesized th… Show more

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“…We induced expectancies about future gains and losses and examined their influence on attention to stimuli signaling reward (gain) and punishment (loss). First, in line with earlier findings in the field 12 , we anticipated that both optimistic and pessimistic expectancies guide attention to congruent rather than incongruent information (optimistic expectancies to reward rather than punishment and pessimistic expectancies to punishment rather than reward), whereas processing of incongruent information enhances SN/ECN activity (congruency hypothesis) 22 .…”
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“…We induced expectancies about future gains and losses and examined their influence on attention to stimuli signaling reward (gain) and punishment (loss). First, in line with earlier findings in the field 12 , we anticipated that both optimistic and pessimistic expectancies guide attention to congruent rather than incongruent information (optimistic expectancies to reward rather than punishment and pessimistic expectancies to punishment rather than reward), whereas processing of incongruent information enhances SN/ECN activity (congruency hypothesis) 22 .…”
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“…A similar version of this figure was previously published in a manuscript reporting behavioral data of another study using the same experimental design ( Fig. 1) 12 . and the pessimistic cues differed in valence only.…”
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