Healthy people tend to rate positive events as being more likely to happen to them than negative events. Here, we call this ‘optimism bias’. Other operationalisations of optimism are associated with m...

Social anxiety (SA) is characterised by heightened vigilance to socially evaluative threat, yet the extent to which this vigilance operates outside conscious awareness remains understudied. This re...

Probability bias is the tendency to think that negative events are relatively likely to happen, and that positive events are relatively unlikely to happen. It is reliably associated with depressive an...

Brown Swiss in Austria has been discovered using tools in different ways – something only ever seen in humans and chimpanzees

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Experts say online retailer has ethical responsibility to guard against chatbot-generated work on sensitive topics Amazon is selling books marketed at people seeking techniques to manage their ADHD that claim to offer expert advice yet appear to be authored by a chatbot such as ChatGPT. Amazon’s marketplace has been deluged with AI-produced works that are easy and cheap to publish, but which include unhelpful or dangerous misinformation, such as shoddy travel guidebooks and mushroom foraging books that encourage risky tasting. Continue reading...

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Generalised anxiety is increasingly prevalent, yet access to therapeutic interventions remains limited. We present two randomised control trials aimed to investigate the efficacy of the Best Possib...

Research proposed the devaluation of positive information, referred to as cognitive immunisation, as a mechanism underlying the persistence of negativ…