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SUBMITTER: Muller-Pinzler L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6783436 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Müller-Pinzler Laura L Czekalla Nora N Mayer Annalina V AV Stolz David S DS Gazzola Valeria V Keysers Christian C Paulus Frieder M FM Krach Sören S
Scientific reports 20191008 1
During everyday interactions people constantly receive feedback on their behavior, which shapes their beliefs about themselves. While classic studies in the field of social learning suggest that people have a tendency to learn better from good news (positivity bias) when they perceive little opportunities to immediately improve their own performance, we show updating is biased towards negative information when participants perceive the opportunity to adapt their performance during learning. In t ...[more]