Self-Help for Skeptics
- Kind
- Internet Article
- Date
- 8/27/2012
- Publisher
- Wall Street Journal
- Retrieved
- Aug 30, 2012
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An Exercise for Cultivating a Positive Outlook on Life
It's possible to change your cognitive bias by training the brain to focus more on the positive than on the negative. In the lab, Dr. Fox showed subjects pairs of images, one negative (the aftermath of a bomb blast, say) and one either positive (a cute child) or neutral (an office). Participants were asked to point…