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SUBMITTER: Garrett N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5380127 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Consciousness and cognition 20161109
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. C ...[more]