"Defocusing" Affective Forecasts - Shifting the Focus from Happiness

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Walsh ◽  
Peter Ayton
Keyword(s):  
Affective Forecasts

Moving Forward

2011 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 225-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet B. Ruscher
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
Spatial Metaphors ◽  
The People ◽  
Stationary Objects ◽  
Study Participants ◽  
Affective Forecasts

Two distinct spatial metaphors for the passage of time can produce disparate judgments about grieving. Under the object-moving metaphor, time seems to move past stationary people, like objects floating past people along a riverbank. Under the people-moving metaphor, time is stationary; people move through time as though they journey on a one-way street, past stationary objects. The people-moving metaphor should encourage the forecast of shorter grieving periods relative to the object-moving metaphor. In the present study, participants either received an object-moving or people-moving prime, then read a brief vignette about a mother whose young son died. Participants made affective forecasts about the mother’s grief intensity and duration, and provided open-ended inferences regarding a return to relative normalcy. Findings support predictions, and are discussed with respect to interpersonal communication and everyday life.

But How Did You Expect To Feel?: The Motivated Misremembering of Affective Forecasts

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mathew S. Isaac ◽  
Alexander Fedorikhin ◽  
David Gal
Keyword(s):  
Affective Forecasts

Affective Forecasts for the Experience Itself: An Investigation of the Impact Bias during an Affective Experience

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
John A. Aitken ◽  
Seth A. Kaplan ◽  
Olivia Pagan ◽  
Carol M. Wong ◽  
Eric Sikorski ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Affective Experience ◽  
Impact Bias ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Affective Forecasts

Cognitive/Affective Forecasts Questionnaire

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sofie Frederickx ◽  
Iven Van Mechelen
Keyword(s):  
Affective Forecasts

Motivated Underpinnings of the Impact Bias in Affective Forecasts

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carey Morewedge ◽  
Eva Buechel ◽  
Joachim Vosgerau
Keyword(s):  
Impact Bias ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Affective Forecasts

Motivated Prediction of Future Feelings: Effects of Negative Mood and Mood Orientation on Affective Forecasts

2007 ◽  
Vol 33 (9) ◽  
pp. 1265-1278 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger Buehler ◽  
Cathy McFarland ◽  
Vassili Spyropoulos ◽  
Kent C. H. Lam
Keyword(s):  
Negative Mood ◽  
Affective Forecasts

Affective Forecasting

2005 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 131-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy D. Wilson ◽  
Daniel T. Gilbert
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Reactions ◽  
Affective Forecasting ◽  
Negative Events ◽  
Impact Bias ◽  
External Agents ◽  
Future Events ◽  
Emotional Recovery ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Affective Forecasts

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 make sense of things that happen to them in a way that speeds emotional recovery. This is especially true when predicting reactions to negative events: People fail to anticipate how quickly they will cope psychologically with such events in ways that speed their recovery from them. Several implications are discussed, such as the tendency for people to attribute their unexpected resilience to external agents.

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