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Interaction between emotional state and learning underlies mood instability

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  • Eran Eldar

    (Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University
    Present address: Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, UCL, London WC1N 3BG, UK)

  • Yael Niv

    (Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University
    Princeton University)

Abstract

Intuitively, good and bad outcomes affect our emotional state, but whether the emotional state feeds back onto the perception of outcomes remains unknown. Here, we use behaviour and functional neuroimaging of human participants to investigate this bidirectional interaction, by comparing the evaluation of slot machines played before and after an emotion-impacting wheel-of-fortune draw. Results indicate that self-reported mood instability is associated with a positive-feedback effect of emotional state on the perception of outcomes. We then use theoretical simulations to demonstrate that such positive feedback would result in mood destabilization. Taken together, our results suggest that the interaction between emotional state and learning may play a significant role in the emergence of mood instability.

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  • Eran Eldar & Yael Niv, 2015. "Interaction between emotional state and learning underlies mood instability," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 6(1), pages 1-10, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:6:y:2015:i:1:d:10.1038_ncomms7149
    DOI: 10.1038/ncomms7149
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    1. Filip Gesiarz & Jan-Emmanuel De Neve & Tali Sharot, 2020. "The motivational cost of inequality: Opportunity gaps reduce the willingness to work," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 15(9), pages 1-18, September.
    2. Roey Schurr & Daniel Reznik & Hanna Hillman & Rahul Bhui & Samuel J. Gershman, 2024. "Dynamic computational phenotyping of human cognition," Nature Human Behaviour, Nature, vol. 8(5), pages 917-931, May.

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