The Effects of Negative Affect and Dispositional Pessimism on Decision-Making Under Ambiguity

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<p>Negative affect has been shown, in both humans and non-human animals, to bias decision-making under ambiguity away from so-called ‘optimistic’ responses that can yield higher rewards but also risk greater losses. The judgement bias task, a cognitive task that uses ambiguous stimuli to measure such decisions as indicators of affective state, has successfully been translated from humans to animals and back again....

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• Avoidance Learning
• Follow-Up Studies
• Interpersonal Relations
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging
• Major Depressive Disorder
• Nucleus Accumbens
• Reproducibility of Results
• Young Adult

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3272979b-34df-59cf-9a16-f6cfd2ff01d4

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10.31234/osf.io/vf98z_v1