• DOI:10.1111/j.0963-7214.2005.00355.x
Corpus ID: 18373805

Affective Forecasting

@article{Wilson2005AffectiveF,
  title={Affective Forecasting},
  author={T. Wilson and D. Gilbert},
  journal={Current Directions in Psychological Science},
  year={2005},
  volume={14},
  pages={131 - 134}
}

T. Wilson, D. Gilbert

Published 2005

Psychology

Current Directions in Psychological Science

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… CONTINUE READING

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