Learning to Look at the Bright Side of Life: Attention Bias Modification Training Enhances Optimism Bias

Learning to Look at the Bright Side of Life: Attention Bias Modification Training Enhances Optimism Bias

Identifying neurocognitive mechanisms underlying optimism bias is essential to understand its benefits for well-being and mental health. The combined cognitive biases hypothesis suggests that biases (e.g., in expectancies and attention) interact and mutually enforce each other. Whereas, in line with...

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Main Authors:	Laura Kress, Tatjana Aue
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-07-01
Series:	Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
Subjects:	attention bias modification training cognitive bias modification comparative optimism bias expectancy bias positive attention bias
Online Access:	https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnhum.2019.00222/full

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