Accuracy and artifact: reexamining the intensity bias in affective forecasting.
@article{Levine2012AccuracyAA, title={Accuracy and artifact: reexamining the intensity bias in affective forecasting.}, author={Linda J. Levine and Heather C. Lench and Robin L. Kaplan and Martin A. Safer}, journal={Journal of personality and social psychology}, year={2012}, volume={103 4}, pages={ 584-605 } }
Research on affective forecasting shows that people have a robust tendency to overestimate the intensity of future emotion. We hypothesized that (a) people can accurately predict the intensity of their feelings about events and (b) a procedural artifact contributes to people's tendency to overestimate the intensity of their feelings in general. People may misinterpret the forecasting question as asking how they will feel about a focal event, but they are later asked to report their feelings in…
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