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What do we know about positive appraisals? Low cognitive cost, orbitofrontal-striatal connectivity, and only short-term bolstering of resilience

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2015

Jennifer S. Beer  and
Taru Flagan
Jennifer S. Beer
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712. beerutexas@gmail.com taru@utexas.edu http://homepage.psy.utexas.edu/HomePage/Group/BeerLAB/
Taru Flagan
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712. beerutexas@gmail.com taru@utexas.edu http://homepage.psy.utexas.edu/HomePage/Group/BeerLAB/
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Abstract

The PASTOR framework needs to be reconciled with existing research on positive illusions, which finds that positive appraisals of stressors have a short shelf life as a mechanism of resilience, do not draw on costly executive functioning, and rely on neural networks that are distinct from those found in studies of experimentally instructed reappraisal or value.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 38 , 2015 , e93
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2015 

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