Children are full of optimism, but those rose-tinted glasses are fading-Reduced learning from negative outcomes drives hyperoptimism in children.

J Exp Psychol Gen · 2022 · PMC7613292 · PMID 34968128

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Our mediation analysis further revealed that the association between age and optimism bias was mediated by negative learning rate (path ab: M = -0.02, SE = 0.01, z = -3.44, p < 0.001), and the association between age and optimism bias was substantially diminished and remained only marginally significant when accounting for negative learning rate (path c’: M = -0.04, SE = 0.02, z = -1.96, p = 0.051).

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