• DOI:10.1177/0146167205274691
Corpus ID: 24041032

Cultural Differences in Affective Forecasting: The Role of Focalism

@article{Lam2005CulturalDI,
  title={Cultural Differences in Affective Forecasting: The Role of Focalism},
  author={Kent C. H. Lam and R. Buehler and C. McFarland and M. Ross and I. Cheung},
  journal={Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin},
  year={2005},
  volume={31},
  pages={1296 - 1309}
}

Kent C. H. Lam, R. Buehler, +2 authors I. Cheung

Published 2005

Psychology, Medicine

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

The impact bias in affective forecasting—a tendency to overestimate the emotional consequences of future events—may not be a universal phenomenon. This prediction bias stems from a cognitive process known as focalism, whereby predictors focus attention narrowly on the upcoming target event. Three studies supported the hypothesis that East Asians, who tend to think more holistically than Westerners, would be less susceptible to focalism and, consequently, to the impact bias. In Studies 1 and 2… CONTINUE READING

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