August 25, 2021

Self-beneficial belief updating as a coping mechanism for stress-induced negative affect

2021, Hormones/Neuromodulators, Social Learning, Social Reward /

Abstract Being confronted with social-evaluative stress elicits a physiological and a psychological stress response. This calls for regulatory processes to manage negative affect and maintain self-related optimistic beliefs. The aim of the current study was to investigate the affect-regulating potential of self-related updating of ability beliefs after exposure to social-evaluative stress, in comparison to non-social […]

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New publication on self-related learning processes out in Scientific Reports!

Science /

Self-beneficial belief updating as a coping mechanism for stress-induced negative affect.   Very cool new computational modeling paper by Nora Czekalla et al. on how stress/affect are better recovered depending on the way people integrate novel information about themselves into their self-concept. With this new data we replicate and extend earlier findings of a negativity

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