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Updating beliefs under perceived threat
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Humans are better at integrating desirable information into their beliefs than undesirable information. This asymmetry poses an evolutionary puzzle, as it can lead to an underestimation of risk and thus failure to take precautionary action. Here, we suggest a mechanism that can speak to this conundrum. In particular, we show that the bias vanishes in response to perceived threat in the environment. We report that an improvement in participants' tendency to incorporate bad news into their beli...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1523/jneurosci.0716-18.2018
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- Publisher:
- Society for Neuroscience Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Journal of Neuroscience Journal website
- Volume:
- 38
- Issue:
- 36
- Pages:
- 7901-7911
- Publication date:
- 2018-09-05
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-06-15
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1529-2401
- ISSN:
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0270-6474
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- Copyright holder:
- Garrett et al
- Copyright date:
- 2018
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- © 2018 Garrett et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium provided that the original work is properly attributed.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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