AI chatbots have a tendency to overgeneralize and misrepresent findings when asked to summarize scientific research papers ...

Childhood adversity includes a range of stressful or traumatic experiences, such as abuse, neglect, household dysfunction, and exposure to violence. It is associated with disruptions in brain ...

We propose that impairments in pattern separation in the dentate gyrus may underlie overgeneralization of fear in anxiety disorders and suggest that a pattern separation deficit is an ...

These findings were published in the journal Current Biology. In overgeneralization, the brain lumps both safe and unsafe things together and labels them all unsafe. For this reason, the ...

This is why we generalize, by applying knowledge of past events to new ones. Yet, while generalizations are a crucial tool in navigating life, overgeneralization can provoke crippling fear in those ...

Words like “never,” “always,” and “everybody” are tell-tale signs that an overgeneralization is present. Making overgeneralizations about groups of people is also common. The language ...