Focusing on the positive or the negative: Self-construal moderates negativity bias in impression updating.
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DOI: 10.1002/pchj.651
Abstract: Negativity bias refers to the phenomenon whereby people put more weight on negative information. Although evolutionarily favorable for survival, negative bias in impression processing is detrimental to relationships and cooperation. To explore whether the motivation… read more here.
Keywords: self construal; bias; bias impression; negativity bias ... See more keywords
Improving cognitive functioning in major depressive disorder with psychedelics: A dimensional approach
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DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2021.107467
Abstract: The high symptomatic and biological heterogeneity of major depressive disorder (MDD) makes it very difficult to find broadly efficacious treatments that work against all symptoms. Concentrating on single core symptoms that are biologically well understood… read more here.
Keywords: negativity bias; depressive disorder; major depressive; approach ... See more keywords
Contextual influence of reinforcement learning performance of depression: evidence for a negativity bias?
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DOI: 10.1017/s0033291722001593
Abstract: BACKGROUNDS Value-based decision-making impairment in depression is a complex phenomenon: while some studies did find evidence of blunted reward learning and reward-related signals in the brain, others indicate no effect. Here we test whether such… read more here.
Keywords: reinforcement learning; depression; learning performance; value ... See more keywords
Negative Is True Here and Now, But Not So Much There and Then.
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DOI: 10.1027/1618-3169/a000493
Abstract: How do people judge the veracity of a message? The negativity bias in judgments of truth describes the phenomenon that the same message is more likely judged as true when framed negatively compared to positively.… read more here.
Keywords: negativity bias; distance; bias conditions; proximity ... See more keywords
Assessment of threat and negativity bias in virtual reality
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DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-74421-1
Abstract: Negativity bias, i.e., tendency to respond strongly to negative stimuli, can be captured via behavioural and psychophysiological responses to potential threat. A virtual environment (VE) was created at room-scale wherein participants traversed a grid of… read more here.
Keywords: negativity bias; assessment threat; threat; ice blocks ... See more keywords
The long-term effects of the economic crisis on political trust in Europe: Is there a negativity bias in the relation between economic performance and political support?
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DOI: 10.1057/s41295-020-00214-5
Abstract: Studies have shown that the economic crisis that started in 2008 was followed by a sharp decline in political trust in some liberal democracies. These findings suggest that an economic downturn might contribute to a… read more here.
Keywords: negativity bias; political trust; economic crisis; crisis ... See more keywords
Animals Like Us: Leveraging the Negativity Bias in Anthropomorphism to Reduce Beef Consumption
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DOI: 10.3390/foods10092147
Abstract: Our current work contributes to the literature of meat consumption reduction. Capitalizing on the inherent humanizing characteristic of anthropomorphism coupled with leveraging negativity bias, we created a novel approach to reduce meat-eating intention. Using on-pack… read more here.
Keywords: leveraging negativity; meat; negativity bias; consumption ... See more keywords