Neural mechanisms mediating optimism bias

By Tali Sharot, A. Riccardi, Candace M. Raio, Elizabeth A. Phelps. Nature, 2007

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Citations in the corpus

• Cognitive bias as an indicator of animal emotion and welfare: Emerging evidence and underlying mechanisms (2009, background): “Indeed, activation of the anterior cingulate cortex appears to occur when people are imagining positive future events and, more generally, in trait optimistic people (Sharot et al., 2007).”
• Privacy attitudes and privacy behaviour: A review of current research on the privacy paradox phenomenon (2017, background): “Optimism bias has a neurological basis (Sharot et al., 2007), which explains why it is so pervasive.”
• How unrealistic optimism is maintained in the face of reality (2011, background): “We previously described a positivity bias in the imagination of future life events, where participants imagined positive future events as closer in time and more vivid than negative events, a bias mediated by activity in rostral anterior cingulate cortex and amygdal”
• Toward a Neurobiology of Unrealistic Optimism (2012, background): “Most recently, attention has turned to investigating the neural underpinnings of this phenomenon (Sharot et al., 2007, 2011).”
• The Brain's Default Network (2008, background): “Imagin-ing the personal future, which activates the default net-workundermanycontexts,hasalsobeendemonstrated toadditionallyrecruittheanteriortemporalcortex (Partiotetal.1995)andtheamygdala(Sharotetal.”
• Top Ten Behavioral Biases in Project Management: An Overview (2021, background): “Optimism bias can be traced to cognitive biases, in other words, systematic deviations from rationality in the way the mind processes information (O’Sullivan, 2015; Sharot et al., 2007; Shepperd et al., 2002).”