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In the journal PNAS, a Kobe University team around YANAGISAWA Kuniaki reports that when optimists think about future events, their neural activity patterns are mutually similar. Pessimists’ patterns, on the other hand, showed much more diversity. Inspired by the opening line of Leo Tolstoy’s “Anna Karenina,” the team summarizes its findings, saying, “Optimistic individuals are all alike, but each less optimistic individual imagines the future in their own way.”
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ASANO Kohei, SUGIURA Hitomi
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