What Would It Be Like for Me and for You? Judged Impact of Chronic Health Conditions on Happiness

Background . People overestimate the impact of health conditions on happiness, putatively because they focus excessively on resulting negative consequences while disregarding the impact of other unchanged aspects of life on happiness. However, typically, inferences about accuracy have been based on a confound of the viewpoint of judgments (Self/Other) with whether the respondent has the condition (Have/Not-have)—an important issue because people...