Cognitive approaches to depression have benefitted from recent research on belief
updating, examining how new information is used to alter beliefs. This review presents …

Finding agreement through a free exchange of views is often difficult. Collective deliberation
can be slow, difficult to scale, and unequally attentive to different voices. In this study, we …

Successful cooperation is tightly linked to individuals' beliefs about their interaction partners,
the decision setting, and existing norms, perceptions, and values. This article reviews and …

Decades after the scientific debate about the anthropogenic causes of climate change was
settled, climate disinformation still challenges the scientific evidence in public discourse …

Actively open-minded thinking (AOT) is measured by items that tap the willingness to
consider alternative opinions, sensitivity to evidence contradictory to current beliefs, the …

When people receive feedback from others, this is an opportunity for them to update their
self-views. People with mental health problems (eg, depression), however, often have …

Negative social expectations are a key symptom of depression. It has been suggested that
individuals with depressive symptoms tend to maintain these expectations by devaluing new …

How do people decide between maintaining information in short-term memory or offloading
it to external reminders? How does this affect subsequent memory? This article presents a …

Background and objectives Mental disorders have been related to aberrations in using
novel positive information to revise established negative beliefs. Previous research used to …

Abstract Information ignorance refers to the act of deliberately avoiding, neglecting, or
distorting information to uphold a positive self-image and protect our identity-based beliefs …