Enhanced sensitivity to optimistic cues is manifested in brain structure: a voxel-based morphometry study.

ABSTRACT: Recent research shows that congruent outcomes are more rapidly (and incongruent less rapidly) detected when individuals receive optimistic rather than pessimistic cues, an effect that was termed optimism robustness. In the current voxel-based morphometry study, we examined whether optimism robustness has a counterpart in the brain structure. The participants' task was to detect two different letters (symbolizing monetary gain or loss) in a visual search matrix. Prior to each onset of the search matrix, two different verbal cues informed our participants about a high probability to gain (optimistic expectancy) or lose (pessimistic expectancy) money. The target presented was either congruent or incongruent with these induced expectancies. Optimism robustness revealed in the participants' rea

SUBMITTER: Aue T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8599192 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature