Impact bias or underestimation? Outcome specifications predict the direction of affective forecasting errors.

2017 ◽  
Vol 146 (5) ◽  
pp. 746-761 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva C. Buechel ◽  
Jiao Zhang ◽  
Carey K. Morewedge
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

2005 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 131-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy D. Wilson ◽  
Daniel T. Gilbert

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.


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

2016 ◽  
Vol 99 (10) ◽  
pp. 1611-1619 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria A. Shaffer ◽  
Elizabeth S. Focella ◽  
Laura D. Scherer ◽  
Brian J. Zikmund-Fisher

2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (10) ◽  
pp. 1340-1351 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatiana Lau ◽  
Carey K. Morewedge ◽  
Mina Cikara

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carey K. Morewedge ◽  
Eva C. Buechel ◽  
Joachim Vosgerau

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