Affective Forecasting Knowing What to Want

Volume: 14, Issue: 3, Pages: 131 - 134
Published: Jun 1, 2005
Abstract
People base many decisions on affective forecasts, predictions about their emotional reactions to future events. They often display an impact bias, overestimating the intensity and duration of their emotional reactions to such events. One cause of the impact bias is focalism, the tendency to underestimate the extent to which other events will influence our thoughts and feelings. Another is people's failure to anticipate how quickly they will...
Paper Details
Title
Affective Forecasting Knowing What to Want
Published Date
Jun 1, 2005
Volume
14
Issue
3
Pages
131 - 134
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