Reduced network integration in default mode and executive networks is associated with social and personal optimism biases.

ABSTRACT: An optimism bias refers to the belief in good things happening to oneself in the future with a higher likelihood than is justified. Social optimism biases extend this concept to groups that one identifies with. Previous literature has found that both personal and social optimism biases are linked to brain structure and task-related brain function. Less is known about whether optimism biases are also expressed in resting-state functional connectivity (RSFC). Forty-two participants completed questionnaires on dispositional personal optimism (which is not necessarily unjustified) and comparative optimism (i.e., whether we see our own future as being rosier than a comparison person's future) and underwent a resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging scan. They further undertook an ima

SUBMITTER: Moser DA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8127148 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature