{"id":1295,"date":"2023-09-25T07:29:07","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T07:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/is-our-brain-hard-wired-to-be-optimistic-bbc-reel\/"},"modified":"2023-09-25T07:29:07","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T07:29:07","slug":"is-our-brain-hard-wired-to-be-optimistic-bbc-reel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/is-our-brain-hard-wired-to-be-optimistic-bbc-reel\/","title":{"rendered":"Is our brain hard-wired to be optimistic? &#8211; BBC REEL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8Ihk-_LHD3M?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>It\u2019s not easy to stay optimistic with everything currently going on in the world. But did you know your brain is actually hard-wired to look on the bright side of life?<\/p>\n<p>Cognitive neuroscientist Tali Sharot explains how our &#8216;optimism bias&#8217; affects our ability to estimate the risks we face and therefore the way in which we behave during a crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Video by Dan John<br \/>\nGraphics by George Mason<\/p>\n<p>#bbcreel #bbc #bbcnews<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8Ihk-_LHD3M\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s not easy to stay optimistic with everything currently going on in the world. But did you know your brain is actually hard-wired to look on the bright side of life? Cognitive neuroscientist Tali Sharot explains how our &#8216;optimism bias&#8217; affects our ability to estimate the risks we face and therefore the way in which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[15,17,16,80,621,18,620,182,77],"class_list":["post-1295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-psychology","tag-bbc","tag-bbcnews","tag-bbcreel","tag-brain","tag-coronavirus","tag-factual","tag-neuroscience","tag-psychology","tag-science","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}