Everybody tends to selectively notice either good or bad events, biases that play an important role in our general reaction to stress. The current results show that a common genetic variation underlies these biases. Thus, people who carried two long alleles on the serotonin transporter gene tended to look on the bright side of life (and selectively avoided negative material), while those who carried the short allele showed a complete absence of this protective bias.
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