Fueled by developments in computational neuroscience, there has been increasing interest
in the underlying neurocomputational mechanisms of psychosis. One successful approach …

Humans do not integrate new information objectively: outcomes carrying a positive affective
value and evidence confirming one's own prior belief are overweighed. Until recently …

In this paper, we provide a perspective into the main ideas and findings emerging from the
growing literature on motivated beliefs and reasoning. This perspective emphasizes that …

A provocative, timely analysis that asks: What does science tells us about the bias that
poisons our politics? We don't live in a 'post-truth'society—but a 'myside'society in which no …

Names: Mercer, Neil, editor.| Wegerif, Rupert, 1959-editor.| Major, Louis,(Louis Christopher),
1985-editor. Title: The Routledge international handbook of research on dialogic …

When forming and updating beliefs about future life outcomes, people tend to consider good
news and to disregard bad news. This tendency is assumed to support the optimism bias …

Importance Clinical research has shown that persistent negative beliefs maintain depression
and that subanesthetic ketamine infusions induce rapid antidepressant responses. Objective …

Here we consider the nature of unrealistic optimism and other related positive illusions. We
are interested in whether cognitive states that are unrealistically optimistic are belief states …

Previous studies suggest that factual learning, that is, learning from obtained outcomes, is
biased, such that participants preferentially take into account positive, as compared to …

I clarify and defend the hypothesis that human belief formation is sensitive to social rewards
and punishments, such that beliefs are sometimes formed based on unconscious …