Debiasing affective forecasting errors with targeted, but not representative, experience narratives

2016 ◽  
Vol 99 (10) ◽  
pp. 1611-1619 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria A. Shaffer ◽  
Elizabeth S. Focella ◽  
Laura D. Scherer ◽  
Brian J. Zikmund-Fisher
2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allen R. McConnell ◽  
Elizabeth W. Dunn ◽  
Sara N. Austin ◽  
Catherine D. Rawn

2011 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 628-634 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allen R. McConnell ◽  
Elizabeth W. Dunn ◽  
Sara N. Austin ◽  
Catherine D. Rawn

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deanna C. Denman ◽  
Andrea R. Graham ◽  
Valerie G. Loehr ◽  
Austin S. Baldwin

2010 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda J. Dillard ◽  
Angela Fagerlin ◽  
Sonya Dal Cin ◽  
Brian J. Zikmund-Fisher ◽  
Peter A. Ubel

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria A. Floerke ◽  
Molly Sands ◽  
Derek Isaacowitz ◽  
Ayanna K Thomas ◽  
Heather L. Urry

Despite the importance of emotion regulation (ER) to physical and psychological health, little is known about the resources that contribute to ER success. In two studies, we tested the hypothesis that affective forecasting, or the ability to predict how situations will make one feel, would be associated with situation selection, an ER strategy in which one chooses situations based on their emotional potential. In Study 1, 53 younger adults completed behavioral assessments of both affective forecasting and situation selection. Contrary to our predictions, there was no robust support for the hypothesis. However, a number of design limitations may have obscured the hypothesized association. Thus, we conducted a second study to retest the hypothesis after instituting several improvements in measurement and timing. In addition, we sought to test a new hypothesis that the association between affective forecasting and situation selection would vary by age. In Study 2, 54 younger and 50 older adults completed behavioral assessments of affective forecasting and situation selection. Analyses indicated that making fewer forecasting errors was associated with selecting fewer emotional relative to neutral situations. No robust age differences were found. This pattern suggests that affective forecasting may be a resource for situation selection across the lifespan.


2011 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine J. Norris ◽  
Amanda G. Dumville ◽  
Dean P. Lacy

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