• DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9280.2006.01760.x
Corpus ID: 1331820

Loss Aversion Is an Affective Forecasting Error

@article{Kermer2006LossAI,
  title={Loss Aversion Is an Affective Forecasting Error},
  author={Deborah A Kermer and Erin Driver-Linn and T. Wilson and D. Gilbert},
  journal={Psychological Science},
  year={2006},
  volume={17},
  pages={649 - 653}
}

Deborah A Kermer, Erin Driver-Linn, +1 author D. Gilbert

Published 2006

Psychology, Medicine

Psychological Science

Loss aversion occurs because people expect losses to have greater hedonic impact than gains of equal magnitude. In two studies, people predicted that losses in a gambling task would have greater hedonic impact than would gains of equal magnitude, but when people actually gambled, losses did not have as much of an emotional impact as they predicted. People overestimated the hedonic impact of losses because they underestimated their tendency to rationalize losses and overestimated their tendency… CONTINUE READING

View on SAGE

people.virginia.edu

Save to Library

Create Alert

Cite

Launch Research Feed