U.S., May 30 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT07615530) titled 'Positive Expectation Effects on Early Emotional Processing' on May 22.
Brief Summary: Insights into the mechanisms of expectation effects in the emotional domain can be invaluable for the development of potential therapeutic interventions for mood disorders. Recent findings demonstrate that positive expectations alone can induce a positivity bias on the behavioral and the neural level (Baker et al.,2022, Mostauli et al., 2025). This is intriguing given that antidepressant treatments, which have high placebo rates are reported to reduce a negativity bias commonly observed in depression.
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