[HTML][HTML] Biopsychosocial functions of human walking and adherence to Behaviourally demanding belief systems: a narrative review

S O'Mara - Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Human walking is a socially embedded and shaped biological adaptation: it frees our
hands, makes our minds mobile, and is deeply health promoting. Yet, today, physical …

[HTML][HTML] Cognitive biases in blood-injection-injury phobia: A review

E Abado, T Aue, H Okon-Singer - Frontiers in psychiatry, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Blood-injection-injury (BII) phobia can lead to avoidance of crucial medical procedures and
to detrimental health consequences, even among health workers. Yet unlike other specific …

A “rosy view” of the past: Positive memory biases

O Adler, A Pansky - Cognitive biases in health and psychiatric disorders, 2020 - Elsevier
The positivity bias in memory is a prevalent phenomenon. People tend to remember more
pleasant than unpleasant events, to remember events more favorably than they actually …

Expectancy and attention bias to spiders: Dissecting anticipation and allocation processes using ERPs

E Abado, T Aue, G Pourtois… - Psychophysiology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The current registered report focused on the temporal dynamics of the relationship between
expectancy and attention toward threat, to better understand the mechanisms underlying the …

The para-hippocampal–medial frontal gyrus functional connectivity mediates the relationship between dispositional optimism and procrastination

Y Liu, F Zhou, R Zhang, T Feng - Behavioural Brain Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Procrastination is a prevalent phenomenon throughout the world, which can lead to worse
consequences across life domains, such as academic performance, mental health, and …

[HTML][HTML] The missing pieces of the puzzle: a review on the interactive nature of a-priori expectancies and attention bias toward threat

E Abado, T Aue, H Okon-Singer - Brain sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
The role of attention bias in the etiology and maintenance of anxiety disorders has been
studied extensively over decades. Attention bias reflects maladaptation in cognitive …

[HTML][HTML] Future self-imagery of young people in Sweden during the COVID-19 pandemic: an exploratory mixed methods analysis

L Singh, CJ Rathbone, ML Moulds, EA Holmes - Current Psychology, 2024 - Springer
Global restrictions imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic significantly limited the capacity
to plan for the future. Little is known about young people's future self-images and the impact …

Optimistic amnesia: how online and offline processing shape belief updating and memory biases in immediate and long-term optimism biases

Z Yao, X Lin, X Hu - Social Cognitive and Affective …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
When people are confronted with feedback that counters their prior beliefs, they
preferentially rely on desirable rather than undesirable feedback in belief updating, ie an …

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

DA Moser, M Dricu, R Kotikalapudi… - Human brain …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Social optimism biases are associated with cortical thickness

DA Moser, M Dricu, R Wiest… - Social cognitive and …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Optimism biases denote the tendency to see future desirable events as being more likely to
happen to oneself than undesirable events. Such biases are important for mental health and …