Fueled by developments in computational neuroscience, there has been increasing interest
in the underlying neurocomputational mechanisms of psychosis. One successful approach …

Humans do not integrate new information objectively: outcomes carrying a positive affective
value and evidence confirming one's own prior belief are overweighed. Until recently …

In this paper, we provide a perspective into the main ideas and findings emerging from the
growing literature on motivated beliefs and reasoning. This perspective emphasizes that …

Names: Mercer, Neil, editor.| Wegerif, Rupert, 1959-editor.| Major, Louis,(Louis Christopher),
1985-editor. Title: The Routledge international handbook of research on dialogic …

Beliefs that the US 2020 Presidential election was fraudulent are prevalent despite
substantial contradictory evidence. Why are such beliefs often resistant to counter …

When forming and updating beliefs about future life outcomes, people tend to consider good
news and to disregard bad news. This tendency is assumed to support the optimism bias …

Importance Clinical research has shown that persistent negative beliefs maintain depression
and that subanesthetic ketamine infusions induce rapid antidepressant responses. Objective …

Here we consider the nature of unrealistic optimism and other related positive illusions. We
are interested in whether cognitive states that are unrealistically optimistic are belief states …

Belief updating is a relatively nascent field of research that examines how people adjust
their beliefs in light of new evidence. So far, belief updating has been investigated in partly …

Human beliefs have remarkable robustness in the face of disconfirmation. This robustness is
often explained as the product of heuristics or motivated reasoning. However, robustness …